| Year |
Event |
| 1900 |
Howard H. Aiken is
born March 8, 1900. |
| 1900 |
Nikola Tesla develops frequency hopping, now known as spread spectrum. |
| 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. |
| 1902 |
Walter Brattain is born
February 10, 1902. |
| 1902 |
3M is founded. |
| 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 |
John Ambrose Fleming experiments with Edison's diode vacuum tubes
and creates the first commercial diode vacuum tube. |
| 1905 |
Derrick Lehmer is born
February 23, 1905. |
| 1906 |
The IEC is founded in London England. |
| 1906 |
Arnold I. Dumey is born in
1906. |
| 1906 |
Reynold Johnson is
born July 16, 1906. |
| 1906 |
Philo Farnsworth is
born August 19, 1906. |
| 1906 |
Grace Hopper is born December 9, 1906. |
| 1907 |
Lee De Frost files patent #879,532 on Jan 29, 1907 for the vacuum
tube triode. This is later used as an electronic switch in the first
electronic computer. |
| 1907 |
IBM files for its first U.S. patent,
#998,631 October 11, 1907. |
| 1908 |
John Bardeen is
born May 23, 1908. |
| 1908 |
The film "A Visit
To The Seaside" becomes the first film commercially produced in natural color in
December of 1908. |
| 1909 |
Edmund Berkeley is born
February 22, 1909. |
| 1909 |
Geoffrey Dummer is born
February 25, 1909. |
| 1909 |
Antoni Kilinski is born
October 20, 1909. |
| 1910 |
William Shockley is
born February 13, 1910. |
| 1910 |
Konrad Zuse is born
June 22, 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 |
IBM is granted its first patent
#998,631 July 25, 1911. |
| 1911 |
Allen Coombs is born
October 23, 1911. |
| 1912 |
Alan Turing is born June 23, 1912. |
| 1912 |
David Packard is
born September 7, 1912. |
| 1912 |
G. N. Lewis begins work on the lithium battery. |
| 1913 |
William Hewlett is
born May 20, 1913. |
| 1913 |
Maurice Wilkes is
born June 26, 1913. |
| 1914 |
Cyril Cleverdon is born
September 9, 1914. |
| 1914 |
George Dantzig is born
November 8, 1914. |
| 1915 |
The first telephone call is made across the continent. |
| 1915 |
Borje Langefors is born
May 21, 1915. |
| 1915 |
Arthur Walter Burks is born
October 13, 1915. |
| 1916 |
Herbert Simon is born June
15, 1916. |
| 1916 |
Claude Shannon is born
April 30, 1916. |
| 1916 |
Christopher Strachey is born November 16, 1916. |
| 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 |
Bashir Rameyev is born
May 1, 1918. |
| 1918 |
Jay Forrester is
born July 14, 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 |
Olympus is established on October 12, 1919 by Takeshi Yamashita. |
| 1920 |
An Wang is born February 7,
1920. |
| 1920 |
Bob Bemer is born
February 8, 1920. |
| 1920 |
First radio broadcasting begins in United States, Pittsburgh, PA. |
| 1921 |
Alexander (Sandy) Shafto
Douglas is born May 21, 1921. |
| 1921 |
Forrest Parry is born July
4, 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. |
| 1922 |
MPAA is established. |
| 1922 |
Charles Hamblin is born
in 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) |
| 1923 |
Corrado Böhm is born in
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. |
| 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 |
Donald Davies is born June
7, 1924. |
| 1924 |
Friedrich Bauer is born
June 10, 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. |
| 1925 |
Douglas Engelbart is born
January 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 |
John Kemeny is born
May 31, 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. |
| 1927 |
David Wheeler is born
February 9, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Allen Newell is born March
19, 1927. |
| 1927 |
Dudley Buck is born April
25, 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 |
Thomas Kurtz is born
February 22, 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 |
Noam Chomsky is born
December 7, 1928 |
| 1928 |
Jack Tramiel is born
December 13, 1928 |
| 1928 |
Martin Cooper is born
December 26, 1928. |
| 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 |
Edsger Dijkstra is born May 11, 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 |
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 |
Andrei Ershov is born
April 19, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Frederick Brooks is
born April 19, 1931. |
| 1931 |
Thomas Edison passes away
October 18, 1931. |
| 1932 |
Jay Glenn Miner is born May 31, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Frances Allen is born
August 4, 1932. |
| 1932 |
ROM-type storage media is introduced. |
| 1932 |
Robert H. Dennard is born
September 5, 1932. |
| 1932 |
Dana Scott is born October
11, 1932. |
| 1933 |
Canon is established. |
| 1933 |
Boris Babayan is born
December 20, 1933. |
| 1934 |
Edward Fredkin is born
January 1, 1934. |
| 1934 |
Charles Hoare is born
January 11, 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 |
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. |
| 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 |
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 |
Charles Peddle 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 |
Alec Reeves develops PCM. |
| 1937 |
Ted Nelson, who
coined the term HTTP is born in 1937. |
| 1937 |
Marcian Hoff is born
October 28, 1937. |
| 1938 |
Charles Moore is born in
1938. |
| 1938 |
Gary Starkweather is
born in 1938. |
| 1938 |
Donald Knuth is born
January 10, 1938. |
| 1938 |
Lynn Conway is born January
10, 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 |
BBC creates the first science fiction television program. |
| 1938 |
Bob Kahn is born December 23,
1938. |
| 1939 |
Adam Osborne is born March
6, 1939. |
| 1939 |
John Scully is born April 6,
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 |
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. |
| 1939 |
Barbara Liskov is born
November 7, 1939. |
