| Year |
Event |
| 1804 |
Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated
loom that is programmed by punched cards. |
| 1820 |
Thomas de Colmar creates the first reliable, useful and
commercially successful calculating machine. |
| 1821 |
Charles
Babbage invents the Difference Engine. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
|
1847 |
Siemens is founded. |
| 1851 |
Western Union was founded. |
| 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 companys name is shortened to the
company that we know today, Toshiba. |
| 1876 |
Scottish-Canadian-American Alexander Graham Bell invents the
telephone. |
| 1877 |
The microphone is invented in the
United States by Emile Berliner. |
| 1880 |
ASME
is founded. |
|
1888 |
Eastman
Kodak is founded. |
| 1883 |
American Thomas Edison discovers the Edison effect, in which an
electric current flows through a vacuum. |
| 1885 |
American Telegraph and Telephone
company (AT&T) is incorporated. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
