technology




Timeline of Events
YearMonthDayEvent
1718 May 15 Lawyer Patents World's First Machine Gun
1794 Mar 14 Cotton Gin Patent Granted To Eli Whitney
1829 Jul 23 William Austin Burt Patents Typographer
1844 May 06 World's Only Mechanical Ice Rink Opens
1862 Jan 30 America's First Ironclad ""USS Monitor"" Launches
1888 Aug 21 William Seward Burroughs Patents First Calculator
1888 Oct 14 Pince Films First Motion Picture
1888 Oct 17 Edison Files Patent For Optical Phonograph
1894 Jan 07 Dickson Get Patent For Movies
1895 Nov 05 Selden Is Granted The First U.S. Patent
1904 May 09 City Of Truro Locomotive Exceeds 100 Mph
1923 Jan 09 Cierva Makes First Autogyro Flight
1923 Apr 05 Firestone Begins Production Of Balloon-tires
1935 Feb 02 Keeler Tests The First Polygraph Machine
1940 Sep 09 Stibitz Pioneers Remote Computer Operation
1940 Sep 11 George Stibitz Remotely Operated A Computer
1941 May 12 Zuse Unveils Programmable Computer
1947 Dec 16 Three Men Build First Point-contact Transistor
1949 May 06 EDSAC Runs Its First Operation
1956 Oct 15 Fronton Computer Language Shared With Coders
1963 Nov 18 First Push Button Telephone Goes Into Service
1969 Oct 01 Sound Barrier Broken
1970 May 24 USSR Begins Kola Superdeep Borehole Drilling
1976 Apr 11 The Apple I Is Created
1977 Jan 03 Apple Computer Is Incorporated
1979 Mar 08 Philips Introduces The CD To The Public
1982 Aug 17 First CDs Released To German Public
1982 Oct 01 Sony Launches First Compact Disc Player
1990 Nov 12 Proposal For Internet Published By Tim Berners-Lee
1998 Jun 11 Compaq Pays $9 Billion For Digital Equipment
2005 Apr 23 First YouTube Video Uploaded
2007 Aug 22 Storm Worm's Botnet Sends 57 Million Emails
2009 Jun 18 NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Is Launched