| Year |
Event |
| 1804 |
Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards. |
| 1811 |
Alexander Bain is born in
1811. |
| 1814 |
Izrael Staffel is born in
1814. |
| 1815 |
George
Boole is born November 2, 1815. |
| 1815 |
Ada
Lovelace is born December 15, 1815. |
| 1816 |
Charles Stanhope passes
away December 15, 1816. |
| 1819 |
Christopher Sholes is
born February 14, 1819. |
| 1820 |
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "arithometer", the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. |
| 1822 |
In the
early 1822 Charles Babbage purposed and begins developing the Difference Engine. |
| 1823 |
Baron
Jons Jackob Berzelius silicon (Si), which today is the basic component of IC's. |
| 1825 |
The earliest known surviving photograph is taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in 1825 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. |
| 1833 |
Joseph Niépce passes away July
5, 1833 (age 68) |
| 1835 |
Elisha Gray is born August 2,
1835. |
| 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
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 |
Alexander Graham Bell is born March 3, 1847. |
| 1847 |
Siemens is founded. |
| 1849 |
John
Ambrose Fleming is born November 29, 1849. |
| 1850 |
Charles Flint is born January
24, 1850. |
| 1851 |
Western Union was founded. |
| 1852 |
Ada
Lovelace passes away November 27, 1852. |
| 1854 |
Augustus DeMorgan and George Boole formalize a set of logical operations now known as DeMorgan
transformations. |
| 1854 |
Georg Ohm passes away July 6, 1854
(Age: 65) |
| 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. |
| 1862 |
Dorr Felt is born March 18, 1862. |
| 1864 |
George Boole passes away
December 8, 1864. |
| 1866 |
The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable is laid from Ireland to Newfoundland. |
| 1868 |
Christopher Sholes is
issued a patent on July 14, 1868 for a typewriter utilizing the QWERTY layout keyboard still used
today. |
| 1870 |
Charles Thomas passes away
March 12, 1870. |
| 1871 |
Charles Babbage passes away October 18, 1871. |
| 1872 |
Samuel Morse passes away April
2, 1872. |
| 1874 |
Thomas Watson is born February
17, 1874. |
| 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 |
Alexander Bain passes away
January 2, 1877. |
| 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 |
Albert Einstein is born March 14, 1879. |
| 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. |
| 1879 |
President Rutherford B. Hayes becomes the first president with a phone
in the White House and gets the phone number "1." |
| 1880 |
ASME is founded. |
| 1881 |
Emanuel Goldberg is born on
August 31, 1881. |
| 1882 |
The first commercial electric power station becomes operation September
4, 1882. |
| 1882 |
Fredrik Bull is born December
25, 1882. |
| 1883 |
Edith Clarke is born February
10, 1883. |
| 1883 |
American Thomas Edison discovers the Edison effect,
where an electric current flows through a vacuum. |
| 1884 |
Izrael Staffel passes away in
1884. |
| 1885 |
American Telegraph and Telephone company (AT&T) is incorporated
March 3,1885. |
| 1886 |
Heinrich Rudolf Hertz proves that electricity is transmitted at the
speed of light. |
| 1888 |
Clair Lake is born in 1888. |
| 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. |
| 1888 |
Eastman Kodak is founded. |
| 1888 |
John Loud gets patent for the ballpoint
pen October 30, 1888. |
| 1888 |
Friedrich Reintzer discovers liquid crystal. |
| 1890 |
Christopher Sholes passes
away February 17, 1890. |
| 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 |
Emil Post is born February 11,
1897. |
| 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 |
Vannevar Bush is born March
11, 1890. |
| 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. |
| 1899 |
William D. Middlebrook patents the paper clip on November 9, 1899. |
