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Event Date: 1455 Event Title: Printing Press Gutenberg and Caxton BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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Event Description: Movable type printing

1780

Franklin discovers electricity.

1822

Babbage, Charles

Charles Babbage designs the Difference Engine.

Babbage designs Analytical Machine, considered to be the first general-purpose computer. Lady Byron writes programs for the machine.

1833

LADY BYRON (first computer program)

1837

SAMUEL MORSE/ Morse code (sequence of elements) ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL/telephone THOMAS ALBA EDISON/Phonograph Patent Burroughs: First commercially successful adding machine. Film: Sequential photographs

Telegraph receiver and transmitter .

1876 1879

Invention of the telephone. Granted a phonograph patent.

1886

1888

1890

HERMAN HOLLERIT (the first informatic)

1927

First public demonstration of T.V.

1928

WALT DISNEY/first cartoon with a fully synchronized soundtrack

Film: Sequential photographs with sprockets manually pulled through a projector. Tabulating Machine for the U.S. Gov.Census using punch cards. The tabulating machine later became IBM. "Talkies": The first commercial talkie film using optical sound recording. Name of the cartoon: "Steamboat Willie"

1931

1936

KONRAD ZUSE/ First calculator. First computer ALAN TURING/"Turings Machine" JOHN ATANASOFF/ The first automated digital computer. First color T.V.broadcast. JOHN WILLIAM MAUCHY/first successful high speed digital computer.

1939

Konrad Zuse First calculator. First computer "Turings Machine" defined as capable of computing any calculable function. John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design a prototype of the ABC computer

1940 1946

1951

UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC COMPUTER

1952

IBM 701: First electronic stored computer that used vacuum tubes.

ENIAC designer of the Electronic Numerator Integrator and Calculator the first successful high speed digital computer. NIVAC Computer used magnetic tape for buffer memory. UNIVERSAL AUTOMATIC COMP. IBM 701: First electronic stored computer that used vacuum tubes, RAM, punch cards and was the size of a piano.

1953 1964

Electric typewriter MARSHAL McLUHAN "Understanding Media" postulates the global village. Third generation of computers included the photo printing of conductive circuit boards to eliminate wiring. TED NELSON HE inventend the Xanadu hypertext project.

1965

1969

1970

TED NELSON/ Invented hypertext project ANDRIES VAN DAM/Built and Developed the first hypertext editing system 4th Generation computer by IBM uses chips to reduce size and cost.

4th Generation computer by IBM uses chips to reduce size and cost.

1971 1975 1978

Computers can now be owned by individuals. Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates. First commercially available cell phone

Intel 4004 chip developed by Hoff.

1990

1990

Development of HTML ( HyperText Markup Language) World Wide Web

1993

Internet

1994

The first successful interactive 3-D computer game. DVD video is introduced

1996

1998

The first portable MP3 player.

2000

Apple introduces iTunes

2000-Present

More Recently

Broderbund releases Myst, the first successful interactive 3-D computer game. DVD video is introduced; full-length movies are now distributed on a single CD. Saehan-Eiger Labs releases the MPMan F10/F20, the first portable MP3 player. The revolution will be downloaded: Apple introduces iTunes (January) and the iPod (October). Recent Trends in the History of Multimedia: With the advent of the Internet and its growing prominence as a news,entertainment, and shopping destination, people skilled in computer multimedia are in great demand. Multimedia is also used in education.