| Year |
Event |
| 1900 |
Howard H. Aiken is born March 8, 1900. |
| 1900 |
Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as
spread spectrum. |
| 1901 |
Allen DuMont is born January 29, 1901. |
| 1901 |
The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in Morse code. |
| 1901 |
Arthur Samuel is born in 1901. |
| 1901 |
Elisha Gray passes away on January 21, 1901 (age 66) |
| 1901 |
Hubert Cecil Booth receives a patent for the first powered vacuum cleaner August 30, 1901. |
| 1901 |
Enrico Fermi is born September 29, 1901. |
| 1902 |
Walter Brattain is born February 10, 1902. |
| 1902 |
3M is founded. |
| 1902 |
Mina Rees is born August 2, 1902. |
| 1902 |
Laszlo Kozma is born November 28, 1902. |
| 1903 |
Nikola Tesla patents electrical logic circuits called "gates" or "switches". |
| 1903 |
Wilbur and Orville Wright both take the first flight December 17, 1903. |
| 1903 |
John von Neumann is born December 28, 1903. |
| 1903 |
John Vincent Atanasoff is born October 4, 1903. |
| 1904 |
George Stibitz is born April 20, 1904. |
| 1904 |
Edweard Muybridge passes away May 8, 1904 (Age:74) |
| 1904 |
John Ambrose Fleming experiments with Edison's diode vacuum tubes and creates the first commercial diode vacuum tube. |
| 1904 |
Lear Romec is founded. |
| 1905 |
Derrick Lehmer is born February 23, 1905. |
| 1905 |
Laszlo Kalmar is born March 27, 1905. |
| 1905 |
Thomas Flowers is born December 22, 1905. |
| 1906 |
The IEC is founded in London England. |
| 1906 |
Arnold I. Dumey is born in 1906. |
| 1906 |
Chester Carlson is born February 8, 1906. |
| 1906 |
Kurt Godel is born April 28, 1906. |
| 1906 |
Reynold Johnson is born July 16, 1906. |
| 1906 |
Xerox is founded. |
| 1906 |
Philo Farnsworth is born August 19, 1906. |
| 1906 |
Grace Hopper is born December 9, 1906. |
| 1907 |
Paul Eisler is born in 1907. |
| 1907 |
Lee De Frost files patent #879,532 on January 29, 1907 for the vacuum tube triode. This is later used as an electronic switch
in the first electronic computer. |
| 1907 |
Gordon Brown is born August 30, 1907. |
| 1907 |
John Mauchly is born August 30, 1907. |
| 1907 |
IBM files for its first U.S. patent, #998,631 October 11, 1907. |
| 1908 |
John Bardeen is born May 23, 1908. |
| 1908 |
Olivetti is founded on October 29, 1908. |
| 1908 |
The film "A Visit To The Seaside" becomes the first film commercially produced in natural color in December of 1908. |
| 1909 |
Ralph Palmer is born in 1909. |
| 1909 |
Edmund Berkeley is born February 22, 1909. |
| 1909 |
Geoffrey Dummer is born February 25, 1909. |
| 1909 |
Antoni Kilinski is born October 20, 1909. |
| 1909 |
The Bryant Chucking Grinder Co. is founded in 1909 by William Leroy Bryant. |
| 1910 |
William Shockley is born February 13, 1910. |
| 1910 |
Konrad Zuse is born June 22, 1910. |
| 1910 |
Hitachi is founded. |
| 1910 |
William Higinbotham is born October 25, 1910. |
| 1910 |
Henry Babbage, Charles Babbage's youngest son completes a portion of the
Analytical Engine and was able to perform basic calculations. |
| 1911 |
Alexey Andreevich Lyapunov is born in 1911. |
| 1911 |
Cuthbert Hurd is born April 5, 1911. |
| 1911 |
Company now known as IBM on is founded June 16, 1911 in the state of New York as the Computing
- Tabulating - Recording Company (C-T-R), a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company. |
| 1911 |
Frederic Williams is born June 26, 1911. |
| 1911 |
Louis Ridenour is born June 27, 1911. |
| 1911 |
IBM is granted its first patent #998,631 July 25, 1911. |
| 1911 |
Jan Rajchman is born August 10, 1911. |
| 1911 |
Allen Coombs is born October 23, 1911. |
| 1912 |
Alan Turing is born June 23, 1912. |
| 1912 |
Helmut Schreyer is born July 4, 1912. |
| 1912 |
David Packard is born September 7, 1912. |
| 1912 |
G. N. Lewis begins work on the lithium battery. |
| 1912 |
Oliver Standingford is born October 9, 1912. |
| 1913 |
Julian Bigelow is born in 1913. |
| 1913 |
William Hewlett is born May 20, 1913. |
| 1913 |
Maurice Wilkes is born June 26, 1913. |
| 1913 |
Herman Goldstine is born September 13, 1913. |
| 1913 |
Robert Adler is born December 4, 1913. |
| 1914 |
I. Bernard Cohen is born March 1, 1914. |
| 1914 |
Paul Rand is born August 15, 1914. |
| 1914 |
Cyril Cleverdon is born September 9, 1914. |
| 1914 |
George Dantzig is born November 8, 1914. |
| 1915 |
Joseph Licklider is born March 11, 1915. |
| 1915 |
The first telephone call is made across the continent. |
| 1915 |
Borje Langefors is born May 21, 1915. |
| 1915 |
Nicholas Metropolis is born June 11, 1915. |
| 1915 |
John Tukey is born June 16, 1915. |
| 1915 |
Arthur Walter Burks is born October 13, 1915. |
| 1916 |
Harry Huskey is born January 19, 1916. |
| 1916 |
Claude Shannon is born April 30, 1916. |
| 1916 |
Herbert Simon is born June 15, 1916. |
| 1916 |
Morgan Sparks is born July 6, 1916. |
| 1916 |
Petro Vlahos is born August 20, 1916. |
| 1916 |
The Curtiss Wright company is founded. |
| 1916 |
Christopher Strachey is born November 16, 1916. |
| 1917 |
Nikon is founded. |
| 1917 |
Winifred Asprey is born April 8, 1917. |
| 1917 |
George Grant passes away August 16, 1917 (Age: 68) |
| 1917 |
Hugh Ross is born August 31, 1917. |
| 1917 |
On September 9, 1917 one of the earliest records of OMG (Oh! My God!) is used by British Admiral
John Arbuthnot Fisher when writing to Winston Churchill in a 1917 correspondence. |
| 1917 |
Arthur C. Clark is born December 16, 1917. |
| 1918 |
Alexander L'vovich Brudno is born January 10, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Andrew Booth is born February 11, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Panasonic is founded March 18, 1918. |
| 1918 |
William Eccles and F.W. Jordan build the world's first flip-flop. |
| 1918 |
Clifford Berry is born April 19, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Karl Braun passes away April 20, 1918 (Age: 67) |
| 1918 |
Bashir Rameyev is born May 1, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Kurt Lehovec is born June 12, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Jay Forrester is born July 14, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Sidney Harman is born August 4, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Herbert Grosch is born September 13, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Hermann Zapf is born November 8, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Klaus Samelson is born December 21, 1918. |
| 1919 |
Nathan Rochester is born January 14, 1919. |
| 1919 |
Andrew F. Kay is born March 22, 1919. |
| 1919 |
John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert, Jr. is born April 9, 1919. |
| 1919 |
Harlan Mills is born May 14, 1919. |
| 1919 |
Jeffrey Chu is born July 14, 1919. |
| 1919 |
John Pinkerton is born August 2, 1919. |
| 1919 |
James Wilkinson is born September 27, 1919. |
| 1919 |
Olympus is established on October 12, 1919 by Takeshi Yamashita. |
| 1920 |
Niels Bech is born in 1920. |
| 1920 |
Heinz Zemanek is born January 1, 1920. |
| 1920 |
Isaac Asimov is born January 2, 1920. |
| 1920 |
An Wang is born February 7, 1920. |
| 1920 |
Bob Bemer is born February 8, 1920. |
| 1920 |
James Pomerene is born June 22, 1920. |
| 1920 |
First radio broadcasting begins in United States, Pittsburgh, PA. |
| 1920 |
Kenneth Iverson is born December 17, 1920. |
| 1921 |
Lotfali Zadeh is born February 4, 1921. |
| 1921 |
Kathleen Antonelli is born February 12, 1921. |
| 1921 |
Alexander (Sandy) Shafto Douglas is born May 21, 1921. |
| 1921 |
Forrest Parry is born July 4, 1921. |
| 1921 |
John Bennet is born July 31, 1921. |
| 1921 |
Czech playwright Karel Capek coins the term "robot" in the 1921 play RUR (Rossum's
Universal Robots). |
| 1921 |
The first Radio Shack store is open. |
| 1921 |
Gerald Estrin is born September 9, 1921. |
| 1922 |
MPAA is established. |
| 1922 |
Charles Hamblin is born in 1922. |
| 1922 |
Georgy Adelson-Velsky is born January 8, 1922. |
| 1922 |
Ralph Baer is born March 8, 1922. |
| 1922 |
Alan Perlis is born April 1, 1922. |
| 1922 |
Keith Uncapher is born April 1, 1922. |
| 1922 |
Alexander Graham Bell passes away August 2, 1922 (Age: 75) |
| 1921 |
Tom Kilburn is born August 11, 1921. |
| 1922 |
Percy Ludgate passes away October 16, 1922 (Age: 38) |
| 1922 |
Gene Amdahl is born November 16, 1922. |
| 1923 |
Corrado Böhm is born in 1923. |
| 1923 |
Joseph Weizenbaum is born January 8, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Wilhelm Rontgen passes away February 10, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Herman Lukoff is born May 2, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Eugene Kleiner is born May 12, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Edgar Codd is born August 23, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Jack St. Clair Kilby, Nobel Prize winner and inventor of the
Integrated Circuit, handheld calculator, and thermal printer is born November 8, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Donald Michie is born November 11, 1923. |
| 1923 |
Peter Elias is born November 23, 1923. |
| 1924 |
The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company is renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924. |
| 1924 |
David Evans is born February 24, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Enid Mumford is born March 6, 1924. |
| 1924 |
George Pake is born April 1, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Donald Davies is born June 7, 1924. |
| 1924 |
CATV and cable broadcasting begins being used in some European cities. |
| 1924 |
Friedrich Bauer is born June 10, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Gerrot Blaauw is born July 17, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Max Palevsky is born July 24, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Leo Fantl is born August 8, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Georgii Lopato is born August 23, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Jean Hoerni is born September 26, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Paul DeMaine is born October 11, 1924. |
| 1924 |
John Backus is born December 3, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Charles Bachman is born December 11, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Jean Bartik is born December 27, 1924. |
| 1924 |
George Fairchild passes away on December 31, 1924 (Age: 71) |
| 1925 |
John Opel is born January 5, 1925. |
| 1925 |
Douglas Engelbart is born January 30, 1925. |
| 1925 |
Nikolay Brusentsov was born February 7, 1925. |
| 1925 |
Heinz Nixdor is born April 9, 1925. |
| 1925 |
Mark Pinsker is born April 24, 1925. |
| 1925 |
John Cocke is born May 30, 1925. |
| 1925 |
Fredrik Bull passes away June 7, 1925 (Age: 43) |
| 1925 |
David Huffman is born August 9, 1925. |
| 1925 |
Seymour Cray is born September 28, 1925. |
| 1926 |
Ken Olsen is born February 20, 1926. |
| 1926 |
Packard Bell is originally founded. |
| 1926 |
Paul Baran is born April 29, 1926. |
| 1926 |
Oliver Selfridge is born May 10, 1926. |
| 1926 |
John Kemeny is born May 31, 1926. |
| 1926 |
John Diebold is born June 8, 1926. |
| 1926 |
Fernando Corbató is born July 1, 1926. |
| 1926 |
Carl Petri is born July 12, 1926. |
| 1926 |
The first patent for the semiconductor transistor is created. |
| 1926 |
Arthur Rock is born August 19, 1926. |
| 1926 |
Kristen Nygaard is born August 27, 1926. |
| 1927 |
David Wheeler is born February 9, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Gerard Salton is born March 8, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Allen Newell is born March 19, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Dudley Buck is born April 25, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Glen Culler is born July 7, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Theodore Maiman is born July 11, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Marvin Minsky is born August 9, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Bob Evans is born August 19, 1927. |
| 1927 |
John McCarthy is born September 4, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Philo Taylor Farnsworth becomes the first person to successfully transmit a
TV signal on September 7, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Robert Noyce is born December 12, 1927. |
| 1928 |
Jean Sammet is born in 1928. |
| 1928 |
Thomas Kurtz is born February 22, 1928. |
| 1928 |
Juris Hartmanis is born July 5, 1928. |
| 1928 |
The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation begins on September 25, 1928, the company will later be known as
Motorola. |
| 1928 |
Bernard Galler is born October 3, 1928. |
| 1928 |
Peter Naur is born October 25, 1928. |
| 1928 |
Noam Chomsky is born December 7, 1928 |
| 1928 |
Jack Tramiel is born December 13, 1928 |
| 1928 |
Martin Cooper is born December 26, 1928. |
| 1929 |
Harlan Anderson is born in 1929. |
| 1929 |
Gordon Moore is born January 3, 1929. |
| 1929 |
Herman Hollerith passes away November 17, 1929. |
| 1929 |
Douglas Ross is born December 21, 1929. |
| 1930 |
Einar Stefferud is born January 11, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Geophysical Service Incorporated is founded. The company will later become Texas Instruments. |
| 1930 |
Martin Goetz is born April 22, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Edsger Dijkstra is born May 11, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Peter Landin is born June 5, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Henry Perot is born June 27, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Daniel McCracken is born July 23, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Galvin Manufacturing Corporation Auto radios begin to be sold as an accessory for the automobile. Paul Galvin coins the name
Motorola for the company's new products, linking the ideas of motion and radio. |
| 1930 |
Dorr Felt passes away August 7, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Alan F. Shugart is born September 27, 1930. |
| 1930 |
Citizen is founded. |
| 1931 |
James Russell is born in 1931. |
| 1931 |
Fletcher Jones is born January 22, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Eiichi Goto is born January 26, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Anthony (Tony) Edgar Sale is born January 30, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Elizabeth Feinler is born March 2, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Andrei Ershov is born April 19, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Frederick Brooks is born April 19, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Nobuo Mii is born July 4, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Morris Chang is born July 10, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Michael Rabin is born September 1, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Ole-Johan Dahl is born October 12, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Thomas Edison passes away October 18, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Jacob Ziv is born November 27, 1931. |
| 1932 |
George Eastman passes away March 14, 1932 (Age:77) |
| 1932 |
Norman Abramson was born April 1, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Jay Glenn Miner is born May 31, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Frances Allen is born August 4, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Gustav Tauschek develops drum memory. |
| 1932 |
ROM-Type storage media is introduced. |
| 1932 |
Robert H. Dennard is born September 5, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Dana Scott is born October 11, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Jorma Rissanen is born October 20, 1932. |
| 1933 |
Canon is established. |
| 1933 |
Stephanie Shirley is born September 16, 1933. |
| 1933 |
Boris Babayan is born December 20, 1933. |
| 1934 |
Edward Fredkin is born January 1, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Donald Bitzer is born January 1, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Charles Hoare is born January 11, 1934 |
| 1934 |
Robin Milner is born January 13, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Niklaus Wirth is born February 15, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Charles Flint passes away February 26, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Robert Moog is born May 23, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Leonard Kleinrock is born June 13, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Gordon Bell is born August 19, 1934. |
| 1934 |
The FCC is established. |
| 1934 |
The US Communication Act goes into place. |
| 1934 |
Max Hopper is born November 4, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Carl Sagen is born November 9, 1934. |
| 1935 |
Barry Boehm is born in 1935. |
| 1935 |
The Polygraph machine aka lie detector is used for the first time. |
| 1935 |
Roger Needham is born February 9, 1935. |
| 1935 |
Charles Molnar is born March 14, 1935. |
| 1935 |
Jack Wolf is born March 14, 1935. |
| 1935 |
Joshua Lederberg is born May 23, 1935. |
| 1935 |
Fujitsu is established June 20, 1935. |
| 1935 |
Karen Jones is born August 26, 1935. |
| 1935 |
TDK is founded on December 7, 1935. |
| 1936 |
Edward Feigenbaum is born January 20, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Germanys Konrad Zuse creates the Z1, one of the first
binary digital computers and a machine that could be controlled through a punch tape. |
| 1936 |
While working on a radio, Paul Eisler invents the Printed Circuit Board (PCB). |
| 1936 |
Abraham Lempel is born February 10, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Dvorak receives a patent for the Dvorak keyboard May 12, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Robert Floyd is born June 8, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Richard Stearns is born July 5, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Henry F. Phillips receives patent for the Phillips screw and screwdriver July 7, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Andrew Grove is born September 2, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Jerry Sanders is born September 12, 1936. |
| 1936 |
Alan Turing develops the Turing Machine. |
| 1937 |
Larry Roberts is born in 1937. |
| 1937 |
Charles Peddle is born in 1937. |
| 1937 |
Steve Russell is born in 1937. |
| 1937 |
Igor Aleksander is born in 1937 |
| 1937 |
Harold Lawson is born in 1937. |
| 1937 |
Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry begin work on creating the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer). Considered by most to be the first electronic digital computer. |
| 1937 |
Dabbala Reddy is born June 13, 1937. |
| 1937 |
Seiko Instruments is founded. |
| 1937 |
Ted Nelson is born June 17, 1937. |
| 1937 |
Philip Estridge is born June 23, 1937. |
| 1937 |
Guglielmo Marconi passes away July 20, 1937 (Age: 63) |
| 1937 |
Alec Reeves develops PCM. |
| 1937 |
Patrick McGovern is born August 11, 1937. |
| 1937 |
Marcian Hoff is born October 28, 1937. |
| 1937 |
Jagadish Bose passes away November 23, 1937 (Age:78) |
| 1938 |
Charles Moore is born in 1938. |
| 1938 |
Gary Starkweather is born in 1938. |
| 1938 |
Philibert D'Ocagne passes away in 1938. |
| 1938 |
Molex is founded. |
| 1938 |
Donald Knuth is born January 10, 1938. |
| 1938 |
Vivitar is founded. |
| 1938 |
Lynn Conway is born January 10, 1938. |
| 1938 |
Samsung is founded. |
| 1938 |
Manuel Blum is born April 26, 1938. |
| 1938 |
Ivan Sutherland is born May 16, 1938. |
| 1938 |
The company now known as Hewlett Packard creates its first product the HP 200A. |
| 1938 |
Chester Carlson produces first electrophotographic image October 22, 1938, which later becomes the Xerox machine. |
| 1938 |
Orson Welles and Houseman broadcast H.G. Welles War of the Worlds on the airways October 30th as a Halloween spoof. |
| 1938 |
Per Hansen is born November 13, 1938. |
| 1938 |
BBC creates the first science fiction television program. |
| 1938 |
Bob Kahn is born December 23, 1938. |
| 1939 |
Paul Cress is born in 1939. |
| 1939 |
Adam Osborne is born March 6, 1939. |
| 1939 |
Dov Frohman is born March 28, 1939. |
| 1939 |
John Scully is born April 6, 1939. |
| 1939 |
Peter Grunberg is born May 18, 1939. |
| 1939 |
George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of adding, subtracting, multiplying and dividing complex numbers.
This device provides a foundation for digital computers. |
| 1939 |
The first Radio Shack catalog is published. |
| 1939 |
Craig Barrett is born August 29, 1939. |
| 1939 |
Charles Geschke is born September 11, 1939. |
| 1939 |
John Hopcroft is born October 7, 1939. |
| 1939 |
Neil Sloane is born October 10, 1939. |
| 1939 |
Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry create a protoType of the binary-based
ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer). |
| 1939 |
The companies Tanaka Seisakusho and Hakunetsusha merge to become the new company we now know as Toshiba. |
| 1939 |
Hewlett Packard is found by William Hewlett and David Packard. The name is decided on the flip
of a coin toss. |
| 1939 |
Barbara Liskov is born November 7, 1939. |
