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Was a Inventor, Designed a programmable computing device. (1849)

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Herman Hollerith was an American inventor who developed an electromechanical punched card tabulator to assist in summarizing information and, later, accounting. (1890)

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Colossus was an electronic digital computer, built during WWII from over 1700 valves. It was used to break the codes of the German Lorenz SZ-40 cipher machine that was used by the German High Command. (1943)

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The UNIVAC I was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. (1951)

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Indian physicist Narinder Kapany pioneers fiber optics. (1954)

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Invented the ruby laser. (1960)

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Charles Townes invented the maser (microwave laser). Gordon Gould coins the word "laser" and builds the first optical laser in 1958. (1958)

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Percy Spencer accidentally discovers how to cook with microwaves, inadvertently inventing the microwave oven. (1955

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Compact discs (CDs) are launched as a new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations. (1983)

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Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet. (1997

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Apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPod MP3 music player. (2001)

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The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales. (2001)

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iRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot. (2002)

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Amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader. (2007)

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Apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone. (2007)

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Elon Musk announces "hyperloop"—a giant, pneumatic tube transport system. (2013)

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Supercomputers (the world's fastest computers) are now a mere 30 times less powerful than human brains. (2015)

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Three nanotechnologists win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for building miniature machines out of molecules. (2016)

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Quantum computing shows signs of becoming a practical technology. (2017)