David Pogue looks at our nation's tradition of pioneering inventors, from Thomas Edison's R&D facility in Menlo Park, N.J., ...
In 2000 TIME’s editors sat down to select three inventions of the year, one each in consumer technology, medical science, and ...
The humble transistor - smaller than a speck of dust — has been made more than any other invention in history, powering ...
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How One 19th-Century Heiress Invented the Idea of the Computer
In the candle-lit world of Victorian England, one woman looked beyond steam engines and gears — and saw the future of machines that could think. Ada Lovelace, daughter of poet Lord Byron, worked with ...
On Oct. 3, 1950, three Bell Labs scientists received a patent for a "three-electrode circuit element" that would usher in the transistor age and the era of modern computing.
A Columbia scientist’s lab revolutionized digital photography with a new kind of imaging now used in more than a billion ...
In 1989, Sir Tim revolutionized the online world. Today, in the era of misinformation, addictive algorithms, and extractive ...
The unanswered question hung heavily in the showroom air. “Does it come equipped with The Button?” That answer is the end of ...
Hard as it is to believe, there was once a time when computers didn't have USB ports. Here's what came before it, and how ...
The history of the Internet can be roughly divided into three phases. The first, from 1969 to 1990, was all about the ...
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