| 1927 - 1943 |
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1927
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First public demonstration of television
in the U.S. takes place: a speech in D.C. is broadcasted in New
York
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1929
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Experimentation with color television
begins; Bell Laboratories is the first in the U.S. to demonstrate
the technology |
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1935
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The IBM 601 punch-card machine
and the electric typewriter are introduced |
IBM Corporate Archives
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1935
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IBM graduates its first class of
female service technicians
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1936
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Konrad Zuse begins developing the
first binary digital computer |
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1937
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Howard Aiken proposes a calculating
machine that can carry out operations in a predetermined sequence
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Lucent Technologies Inc. / Bell Labs
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1937
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George Stibitz develops the "Model
K," the prototype binary adder circuit
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1937
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Alan Turing introduces the idea
of his "Turing Machine" |
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1938
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Bill Hewlett and Dave Packard begin
Hewlett-Packard in a garage with $538 in capitol. |
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1939
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John Vincent Atanasoff and Cliff
Berry create a model for the electronic-digital computer |
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1943
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Construction of the ENIAC (Electronic
Numerical Integrator and Computer) begins at the Moore School of
Electrical Engineering in Philadelphia
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1943
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Invention of the first all-electronic
calculating device, the Collosus. |
