Name:

Course: BS ACCOUNTANCY
Relevant inventions and discoveries in history for my course:

Date Invention or Discovery Present Invention

First written languages are
developed by the Sumerian
3000 BCE people of southern Digital pens; Typewriters
Mesopotamia (part of modern
Iraq)

Ancient Egyptians produce

~2500 BCE papyrus, a crude early version Paper
of paper

Semites of the Mediterranean

c1700 BCE Digital pens
develop the alphabet
Thales of Miletus discovers
600 BCE Electricity
static electricity
Ts'ai Lun makes the first paper
105 CE Paper
in China
Gottfried Leibniz pioneers the
1703 binary number system now used Computers
in virtually all computers
Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents
the automated cloth-weaving
Programmable
1801 loom. The punched cards it uses
computers
to store patterns help to inspire
programmable computers

Henry and Sealy Fourdrinier

1803 develop the papermaking Paper
machine

Scotsman Alexander Bain

1840s invents a primitive fax machine Fax machines
based on chemical technology

Christopher Latham Sholes

1868 invents the modern typewriter Typewriters
and QWERTY keyboard

Laszlo and Georg Biro pioneer

1930s Digital pens
the modern ballpoint pen
 John Bardeen, Walter Brattain,
and William Shockley invent the
Amplifiers;
transistor, which allows
1947 Electronics;
electronic equipment much
Transistors
smaller and leads to the modern
computer revolution

Robert H. Dennard of IBM

1966 invents dynamic random access Computer memory
memory (DRAM)

Douglas Engelbart develops the

1960s Computer mouse
computer mouse
Martin Cooper develops the first
1973 handheld cellphone (mobile Cellphones
phone
Robert Metcalfe figures out a
simple way of linking computers
together that he names Computer networks;
1973
Ethernet. Most computers Internet
hooked up to the Internet now
use it

Tim Berners-Lee invents the

1989 World Wide Web
World Wide Web

Amazon.com launches its Kindle

2007 Electronic books
electronic book (e-book)

Apple introduces a touchscreen

2007 Cellphone touchscreens
cellphone called the iPhone

Apple releases its touchscreen

2010 Computer touchscreens
tablet computer, the iPad

Supercomputers (the world's

fastest computers) are now a
2015 Supercomputers
mere 30 times less powerful
than human brains

Google claims to have achieved

"quantum supremacy"—with a
2019 quantum computer that Quantum computers
calculates faster than a
conventional one