| Year |
Event |
| 1901 |
The first radio message is sent across the Atlantic Ocean in
Morse code. |
| 1902 |
3M is founded. |
| 1906 |
The IEC is founded in
London England. |
| 1906 |
Grace Hopper is born December
9, 1906. |
| 1911 |
Company now known as IBM on is
incorporated June 15, 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. |
| 1912 |
Alan Turing is born June 23,
1912. |
|
1915 |
The first
telephone call is made
across the continent. |
| 1920 |
First radio broadcasting begins in United States, Pittsburgh,
PA. |
| 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. |
| 1922 |
MPAA is
established. |
| 1923 |
Eugene Kleiner is born. |
| 1923 |
Jack Kilby is born November 8,
1923. |
| 1924 |
The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company is renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924. |
| 1925 |
Douglas
Engelbart is born. |
| 1925 |
Seymour Cray is born. |
| 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 |
September 25, 1928, The Galvin Manufacturing Corporation begins,
the company will later be known as Motorola. |
| 1929 |
Gordon Moore is born January 3,
1929. |
| 1930 |
Edsger Dijkstra is born May 11,
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 |
Citizen is founded. |
| 1932 |
Jay Glenn Miner is born May 31,
1932. |
| 1933 |
Canon is established. |
| 1934 |
The FCC is established. |
| 1934 |
The US Communication Act
goes into place. |
| 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 |
Dvorak keyboard is developed. |
|
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 |
Alec Reeves develops PCM. |
|
1938 |
The company no known as Hewlett Packard
creates its first product the HP 200A. |
| 1938 |
Orson Welles and Houseman broadcast H.G. Welles War of the
Worlds on the airways October 30th as a Halloween spoof. |
| 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 |
Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
create a prototype of the binary-based
ABC (Atanasoft-Berry
Computer). |
| 1939 |
Hewlett Packard is found by William
Hewlett and David Packard. The name is decided on the flip of a
coin toss. |
