| Year | Event |
| 1804 | Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards. |
| 1814 |
Izrael Staffel is born in
1814. |
| 1815 | George
Boole is born November 2, 1815. |
| 1815 |
Ada
Lovelace is born December 15, 1815. |
| 1820 | Thomas de Colmar creates the first reliable, useful and commercially successful calculating machine. |
| 1822 | In the
early 1822 Charles Babbage
purposed and begins developing the Difference Engine. |
| 1826 | The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1826 of a view of a courtyard from his window. |
| 1827 | George Simon Ohm introduces Ohm's law in the book Die galvanische Kette, mathematisch bearbeitet. |
| 1831 | Joseph Henry of Princeton invents the first working telegraph. |
| 1832 | Semen Korsakov uses punch cards for the first time to store and search for information. |
| 1837 |
Charles Babbage purposes the
Analytical Engine. |
| 1838 | Samuel Morse invents a code (later called Morse code) that used different numbers to represent the letters of the English alphabet and the then digits. |
| 1844 | Samuel
F.B. Morse dispatches the first telegraphic message over a line from
Washington, D.C. to Baltimore on May 24, 1844. |
| 1845 | In
1845,
Izrael Staffel demonstrated the Staffel's calculator at the
industrial exhibition in Warsaw. |
| 1847 | Thomas
Edison is born February 11, 1847. |
| 1847 | Siemens is founded. |
| 1849 | John
Ambrose Fleming is born November 29, 1849. |
| 1851 | Western Union was founded. |
| 1852 |
Ada
Lovelace passes away November 27, 1852. |
| 1856 | Nikola
Tesla is born July 10, 1856. |
| 1857 | The phonautograph (phonograph) is patented March 25, 1857 by Frenchman Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville. The device was capable of transcribing sound to a medium. |
| 1859 | The
Elevator is patented on August 9, 1959. |
| 1860 | Herman
Hollerith is born February 29, 1860. |
| 1861 | The first known permanent color photograph is taken of a Tartan Ribbon by the photographer Thomas Sutton. To achieve a color image he took a photo of the ribbon three times, each time with a different color, a method developed by James Clerk Maxwell. |
| 1866 | The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable is laid from Ireland to Newfoundland. |
| 1868 | Christopher Sholes invents the typewriter in the United States utilizing the QWERTY keyboard. |
| 1871 |
Charles Babbage passes away October 18, 1871. |
| 1875 | Tanaka Seizo-sho is established in Japan and later merges with another company called shibaura Seisaku-sho to form Tokyo Shibarura Denki. Later this companies name is shortened to the company that we know today, Toshiba. |
|
1875 | The company American Telephone and
Telegraph Company that later became AT&T is
founded. |
| 1876 | Scottish-Canadian-American Alexander Graham Bell is often credited as inventing the telephone
makes the first call March 10, 1876. |
| 1877 | The microphone is invented in the United States by Emile Berliner. |
| 1877 | Thomas Edison invents and announces on November 21, 1877 the first phonograph capable of recording and replaying sounds. |
|
1878 | Eadweard Muybridge's "The Horse In
Motion" becomes the first motion picture. |
|
1879 | Thomas Edison demos incandescent electric
light bulb that lasts 13 1/2 hours October 21, 1879. |
| 1879 | James Jacob Ritty patents the worlds first cash register November 4, 1879. |
| 1880 | ASME is founded. |
| 1884 |
Izrael Staffel passes away in
1884. |
| 1883 | American Thomas Edison discovers the Edison effect,
where an electric current flows through a vacuum. |
| 1885 | American Telegraph and Telephone company (AT&T) is incorporated
March 3,1885. |
| 1888 |
National Geographic Society is established on January 27, 1888. |
| 1888 | Nikola Tesla patents the rotating field motor May 1, 1888 and later sells the rights to George Westinghouse. This invention helps create and transmit AC power and today is still a method for generating and distributing AC power. |
| 1888 | William S. Burroughs patents a printing adding machine. |
| | Eastman Kodak is founded. |
|
1888 | John Loud gets patent for the ballpoint
pen October 30, 1888. |
| 1888 | Friedrich Reintzer discovers liquid crystal. |
| 1891 | Phillips is founded. |
|
1895 | Wilhelm Röntgen
discovers X-rays November 8, 1895. |
| 1896 | Herman Hollerith starts the Tabulating Machine Company, the company later becomes the well-known computer company IBM (International Business machines). |
| 1897 | German scientist Karl Ferdinand Braun invents the Cathode-Ray Oscilloscope. |
| 1898 | Alcatel is founded. |
|
1898 | Nikola Tesla invents the remote control
November 8, 1898. |
| 1890 | Herman Hollerith developed a method for machines to to record and store information onto punch cards to be used for the US census. He later formed the company we know as IBM today. |
|
1899 |
AT&T acquires assets of American Bell, and
becomes the parent company of Bell System.
|
|
1899 |
On September 13, 1899 Henry Bliss becomes the
first North American pedestrian to be killed by an automobile. |
