Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
	1st Jul, 1827	First Camera	On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura. Prior to Niepce people just used the camera obscura for viewing or drawing purposes not for making photographs. Joseph Nicephore Niepce's heliographs or sun prints as they were called were the prototype for the modern photograph, by letting light draw the picture.
	1st Jan, 1835	First Electronic Vehicle	Between 1832 and 1839 (the exact year is uncertain), Robert Anderson of Scotland invented the first crude electric carriage.
	20th Sep, 1859	First Electric Stove	On September 20, 1859, George B. Simpson. is awarded US patent #25532 for an 'electro-heater' surface heated by an platinum-wire coil powered by batteries;[1] in his words, useful to "warm rooms, boil water, cook victuals..."] ... essentially an electric hotplate.
	1st Jan, 1867	First Projector	The first machine patented in the United States that showed animated pictures or movies was a device called the "wheel of life" or "zoopraxiscope". Patented in 1867 by William Lincoln, moving drawings or photographs were watched through a slit in the zoopraxiscope.
	10th Mar, 1876	First Telephone	Bell's experiments with his assistant Thomas Watson, on the telephone, finally proved successful on March 10, 1876, when the first complete sentence was transmitted: "Watson, come here; I want you.".
	1st Jan, 1879	Light Bulb Invented	The electric light, one of the everyday conveniences that most affects our lives, was invented by Thomas Alva Edison.
	18th Jan, 1895	First Radio	Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. This was the first successful transatlantic radiotelegraph message in 1902.
	1st Jan, 1896	Wireless Telegraph Developed	Guglielmo Marconi pioneered the development of the wireless telegraph.
	1st Jan, 1918	Super-Heterodyne Receiver Invented	Edwin Armstrong invented the "super-heterodyne receiver" that could select among radio signals or stations and could receive distant signals.
	1st Jan, 1927	Invention of the Televison	In 1921 the 14-year-old Mormon had an idea while working on his father's Idaho farm. Mowing hay in rows, Philo realized an electron beam could scan a picture in horizontal lines, reproducing the image almost instantaneously. This would prove to be a critical breakthrough in Philo Farnsworth's invention of the television in 1927.
	1st Jan, 1930	First Electric Guitar	The "frying pan" was the first electric guitar ever produced. The instrument was created in 1930 by Adolph Rickenbacker, and subsequently manufactured by Rickenbacker Electro
	16th Nov, 1936	First Programmable Computer	Konrad Zuse invented the Z1 Computer, the first freely programmable computer.
	1st Jan, 1956	First VCR or VTR	Before the days of VCRs (Video cassette recorders), there were machines called VTRs (Video tape recorders).The VTRs -- video tape recorders -- were similar to reel-to-reel audio tapes, with large spools of multi-track magnetic tapes. Prototype machines were built in the early 1950s. The first practical, commercial broadcast quality video recorder was released by Ampex in 1956.
	16th May, 1960	First Laser	Theodore Maiman made the first laser operate on 16 May 1960 at the Hughes Research Laboratory in California, by shining a high-power flash lamp on a ruby rod with silver-coated surfaces.
	24th May, 1972	First Gaming Console	The Magnavox Odyssey is the world's first home video game console. It was first demonstrated on May 24, 1972 and released in August of that year, predating the Atari Pong home consoles by three years.
	1st Apr, 1973	First Cell Phone	Dr Martin Cooper, a former general manager for the systems division at Motorola, is considered the inventor of the first portable handset and the first person to make a call on a portable cell phone in April 1973. The phone was nick -named "The Brick".
	1st Jan, 1981	First Portable Laptop	As 8-bit CPU machines became widely accepted, the number of portables increased rapidly. The Osborne 1, released in 1981, used the Zilog Z80 and weighed 23.6 pounds (10.7 kg). It had no battery, a 5 in (13 cm) CRT screen, and dual 5.25 in (13.3 cm) single-density floppy drives. In the same year the first laptop-sized portable computer, the Epson HX-20, was announced.[9] The Epson had a LCD screen, a rechargeable battery, and a calculator-size printer in a 1.6 kg (3.5 lb) chassis.
	1st Oct, 1982	First CD Player	On October 1, 1982 Sony introduced the CDP-101, the first Compact Disc audio CD player on the market at a retail price of about $900.
	1st Jan, 1989	Invention of the World Wide Web	The Internet and Transmission Control Protocols were initially developed in 1973 by American computer scientist Vinton Cerf as part of a project sponsored by the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) and directed by American engineer Robert Kahn. The World Wide Web was developed in 1989 by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
	1st Mar, 1998	First MP3	The world's first mass-produced hardware MP3 player was Saehan's MPMan, sold in Asia starting in the late spring of 1998. It was released in the United States as the Eiger Labs MPMan F10/F20 (two variants of the same device) in the summer of 1998, a few months before the Rio.