Basic Technology History
Tyler Falls
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Computers:
First Computer Invented:
Most people when they think of first computer invented they think Bill
Gates. This, however, is not true, for the computer was invented long before
Bill Gates was around. Bill Gates only revolutionized the computer, buy
creating a more compact and useful form of the computer and making it
available to everyone with a job.
There are many people out there who would say that the first "computer" was
the abacus, invented in Asia about 5000 years ago. I however, wouldn't.
The first of the "modern" computers was invented during World War II, in
1941 by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse. Its name was the Z3 and it was
used to help design German airplanes and missile's. Then in 1943, the Allied
forces developed a computer called Colossus. It helped decode German
messages.
The Mark I, designed by Howard H. Aiken, an engineer working with Harvard
and IBM. The Mark I was positively huge, taking up half of a football field.
It was useful though and it helped to create ballistic charts for the US
Navy during the war.
Shortly after this, came the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
(ENIAC), developed by John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, working with
the government and the University of Pennsylvania. ENIAC was about 1000
times faster than The Mark I but no smarter.
The Use of transistors, ment computers that could store memory and even run
programs. Soon after computer languages were invented so that people could
change the programs run by the computer. Finally computer research brought
us smaller, more useful computers, and eventually the kinds of computers
that we have today.
First Laptops Invented:
Although it is a little hard to determine what the first portable or laptop
computer was, and when it was invented, we can however say that there is
more than one claim to laptop fame. There was even signs of laptops dating
back as early as 1979. Designed by a Briton, William Moggridge, for use by
NASA in early 1980's. IT was one fifth the weight of any model equivalent in
performance and was a 340K byte bubble memory lap-top computer with die-cast
magnesium case and folding electroluminescent graphics display screen.
Since then notebook PC's released in 1981 lay clam to being the first. It
was the Epson HX-20, a battery powered portable computer, with a
20-character by 4 line LCD display and a built-in printer that started the
new widespread desire for these laptop computers.
In January of 1982, Microsoft's Kazuhiko Nishi and Bill Gates begin
discussions on designing a portable computer, based on using a new liquid
crystal display or LCD screen. LCD technology in 1982? Yeah that's right!
Believe it or not we had the technology to make the LCD tvs and monitors
that you've seen only recently over 22 years ago. But that's another story
in itself.
First PDAs Invented
First of all PDA stands for personal digital assistants in case you didn't
already know. In 1993, Apple Computer Inc. released the very first
PDA(personal digital assistants) "The Newton®". For the next three years,
PDA sales dwindled, and were almost off the charts. Then, in March 1996,
Palm™, Inc. delivered the industry's first truly compelling handheld
computer, the PalmPilot. Today there are to many PDA companies and products
to even bother mentioning.
Some Things You Can Do On A PDA:
Get a Wireless Connection
Surf the Web
Play Music and Video Files
Watch movies Using PocketTV
Play a Game
Use Your Pocket PC as a backup device
Update Office Documents
Download and read E-books
Listen to Audio Books
Connect to Windows servers using Terminal Services
Use Messenger Tools
Change the theme of your Pocket PC
Project the Pocket PC screen onto your desktop
Study
Do Your Taxes
Some PDA Software:
Medical/Drug Resources PDA Software
Medical Calculators PDA Software
Learning Tools PDA Software
Patient Tracking PDA Software
Document Readers PDA Software
Medical Equipment PDA Software
Databases PDA Software
Printing PDA Software
News and Information PDA Services
Street Finders and Maps PDA Software
Bible Study PDA Software
Voice Command PDA Software
Language Translator PDA Software
Tax PDA Software
Home Entertainment Technology:
Home Entertainment really is just a collaboration of all our entertainment
technologies into a package that surely will not disappoint us. Home
entertainment systems have many different parts that together give us the
feeling of being at the movies.
Plasma TV
LCD Panel TV
DLP Rear Projection TV
Video Projectors
Surround Sound Audio Systems
Speakers
DVD / CD / VCR Players
Accessories and Furniture
Satellite Television
Media Center HTPCs
First Television Invented:
The first signs of a tele date back to the 1862 when Abbe Giovanna Caselli
invents his "pantelegraph" and becomes the first person to transmit a still
image over wires. In 1900, at the World's Fair in Paris, the 1st
International Congress of Electricity was held, where Russian, Constantin
Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." In 1930 Charles
Jenkins broadcasts the first TV commercial. The BBC begins regular TV
transmissions.
Then throughout the years the inventions came one after another. In 1950 the
FCC approves the first color television standard which is replaced by a
second in 1953. Vladimir Zworykin developed a better camera tube - the
Vidicon. In 1956 Robert Adler invents the first practical remote control. In
1973 giant screen projection TVs are first marketed. Followed by Sonys
release of the first home video cassette recorder in 1976.By time 1996 came
around there was a billion TV sets world-wide.
First DVD/Player Invented:
We can only assume the transition over from cd's and cd players over to dvds
and dvd players wasn't that hard. The technology was already there for them.
So the dvd player was surely invented before or right after the dvd was
invented. DVDs are the work of many companies and many people. The DVD
evolved from CD and related technologies. Companies such as Sony, Philips,
Toshiba, Matsushita, Time Warner, and others announced the new "high
density" dvd in September of 1995.
Tyler D Falls - Technology wiz and website owner.
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