ASSIGNMENT 1 Kip deeley Telephone Technology The telephone

ASSIGNMENT 1 Kip deeley

Telephone Technology. • • The telephone was invented in March 10, 1876 by Alexander Graham Bell. IBTC's first non-North American subsidiary was the Bell Telephone Manufacturing Company

The world's first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper.

The i. Phone is the first smartphone model designed and marketed by Apple. It is the first generation of i. Phone that was announced on January 9, 2007 after years of rumors and speculation.

Field telephones are telephones used for military. They can draw power from their own battery.

• Most of us know that Alexander Graham Bell first invented the telephone in 1876, but there are many other facts throughout the history of the telephone that are nearly unknown! The first phone call was between Alexander Graham Bell and his assistant, Thomas Watson.

• Mark Twain was one of the first to have a phone in his home.

The Italian inventor Antonio Meucci had also invented a telephone-like device 20 years earlier.

• The word ‘telephone’ was first used by Francois Sudré in 1828 for a musical signaling system.

• Almon Brown Strowger was the first to file a patent for a rotary dial on on December 21, 1891, which was awarded on November 29, 1892 as U. S. Patent 486, 909.

Personal Computer Technology.

Charles Babbage the first person to make the first computer

Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer.

The first Personal Computer was made in 1975. it came has a kit

• The first computer company was the Electronic Controls Company and was founded in 1949 by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the same individuals who helped create the ENIAC computer.

• Ship gun fire-control systems (GFCS) enable remote and automatic targeting of guns against surface ships, aircraft, and shore targets, with or without the aid of radar or optical sighting. Most US ships that are destroyers or larger (but not destroyer escorts or escort carriers) employed GFCS for 5 -inch and larger guns, up to battleships, such as the USS Iowa. Beginning with ships built in the 1960 s, GFCSs were integrated with missile fire-control systems and other ship sensors.

Adam Osborne made the mobile computer in April 3, 1981 at the West Coast Computer Faire at San Francisco's

• 30 years ago, the Osborne 1 made its debut as the world's first portable PC, and weighed nearly 24 pounds. Created by Adam Osborne of Osborne Computer Corporation

The first mouse • The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Engelbart, with the assistance of Bill English, during the 1960's and was patented on November 17, 1970. While creating the mouse, Douglas working at the Stanford Research Institute, a think tank sponsored by Stanford University.

The first computer to have color • April Apple unveils the Apple II—the first PC with color graphics—at the first West Coast Computer Faire.

Storage Media Technology

• Magnetic tape is a medium for magnetic recording, made of a thin, magnetizable coating on a long, narrow strip of plastic film. It was developed in Germany, based on magnetic wire recording.

• The floppy disk drive (FDD) was invented at IBM by Alan Shugart in 1967. The first floppy drives used an 8 -inch disk

The first hard dive • IBM was the first company to make hard drive and made in 1956.

• Alternatively referred to as a cd writer, CD-WO (Write once), WORM (Write Once Read Many) drive. CD-R is short for CD-Recordable and is a writable disc and drive that is capable of having information written to the disc once and then having that disc read many times after that.

A USB flash drive, also known as a USB drive, USB stick, USB key, USB, and a variety of other names, is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated USB interface. And it was made by Dov Moran.

• The official website, www. icloud. com, went live in early August for Apple Developers. On October 12, 2011, i. Cloud became available to use via an i. Tunes update. i. Cloud had 20 million users in less than a week after launch.

The Sony minidisc The sony minidisc was made in 1998 it had. Offerd a capacity of 74 minutes and, later, 80 minutes, of digitized audio or 1 gigabyte

• The first man to make the first Herman Hollerith who made it in 1890.

punch card. The standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states.