ICT Timeline v 1.0.0

 

 

year

Telecommunications and

computers

Television and video

Radio and records

Photography and film

Print and publishing

Computer games

Cracks,hacks and errors

bizz

jobs

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1701

 

 

 

 

Daily Courant

Prve londonske dnevne novine

 

 

 

 

1704

 

 

 

 

The Boston News-Letter

Prvi americki nedeljnik

 

 

 

 

1706

 

 

 

 

The Evening Post

Londonske prve vecernje novine

 

 

 

 

1725

 

 

 

 

Stereotipija (Stereotypy)

 

 

 

 

1727

 

 

 

Professor J. Schulze mixes chalk, nitric acid, and silver in a flask; notices darkening on side of flask exposed to sunlight. Accidental creation of the first photo-sensitive compound.

 

 

 

 

 

1734

 

 

 

 

Caslon font

 

 

 

 

1750

 

 

 

 

Baskerville font

 

 

 

 

1755

 

 

 

 

A Dictionary of the English Language

Dr Jonson

 

 

 

 

1764

 

 

 

 

Fournier: point system

 

 

 

 

1768

 

 

 

 

Encyclopeadia Brittanica

 

 

 

 

1770

 

 

 

 

Didot font

 

 

 

 

1777

Stanhope Logic Demonstrator

. The pocket-size device solves syllogisms, logical numerical problems and basic problems of probability. The Logic Demonstrator reveals the first distinct signs of how logic and mathematics are integrated to solve problems.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The city of San José is founded as California’s first non-military settlement. Later, in the 1980’s, it will be transformed from an agricultural center to an industrial one as it becomes the heart of the Silicon Valley.

 

The New York Stock Exchange is organized by a group of 24 stockbrokers.

 

 

1792

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1793

-Mreza mehanickih semafora

-Stanhope Arithmetic Machine

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1796

 

 

 

 

Senefelder: Litografija

 

 

 

 

1798

 

 

 

Phantasmagoria

projektor

Nicholas-Louis Robert

Masina za pravljenje papira

 

 

 

 

1800

 

 

 

Thomas Wedgwood makes "sun pictures" by placing opaque objects on leather treated with silver nitrate; resulting images deteriorated rapidly, however, if displayed under light stronger than from candles.

 

 

 

 

 

1804

Mr. Joseph-Marie Jacquard

(1752-1834) invents the

punched-card loom having

been inspired by the

technology of the punched

-paper barrel organ. This

innovation helps spawn the

thinking of "pre-programming" machines to perform repeated

tasks by way of cards with

holes punched in specific

patterns.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1806

Napoleon issues a

declaration that the patents

for Mr. Joseph-Marie Jacquard punched-card loom are public property.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1815

Ms. Augusta Ada Byron, daughter of Lord Byron, is born. She will one day become the world’s first programmer.

Mr. George S. Boole is born. Boole will become known for his work with Boolean logic.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1817

 

 

 

Nicéphore Niépce combines the camera obscura with photosensitive paper

HarperCollins Publishers is founded.

 

 

 

 

1822

Mr. Charles Babbage

(1792-1871), a mathematician

and engineer, completes a

small non-functional prototype

of his Difference Engine. This device, made of gears and

wheels, computes complex scientific problems up to six

decimal places.

 

 

 

-Photogravure printing

-masina za zasporedjivanje slova

 

 

 

 

1824

 

 

 

 

In 1824 Louis Braille, a French student and later teacher who was blind himself, invented the system that enables blind persons to read.

 

 

 

 

 

1827

 

 

 

French inventor Joseph Niépce made the first fixed photographic images. In 1827 he used a primitive camera and a bitumen-coated pewter plate to capture this image of a Set Table, which is one of his earliest photographs.

 

 

 

 

 

1828

 

 

 

Plateau:Persistence of vision

 

 

 

 

 

1830

Mr. Charles Thomas de

Colmar (1785-1870) begins

selling a device called the Arithometer to Parisian

insurance houses. The device incorporates a drum which

integrates nine teeth of

different lengths that turns

wheels that act as counters.

The instrument becomes quite popular and around 1,500 will

be manufactured through

1850.