- Antikythera mechanism - orrery used to predict astronomical positions and eclipses for calendrical and astrological purposes
- 1837 - Morse's electrical telegraph
- 1837 - Babbage & Lovelace create schematic for the Analytical Engine
- 1936 - Turing paper on computable numbers
- 1946 - ENIAC
- 1947 - Transistor
- 1949 - First stored program executed on EDSAC
- 1968 - Mother of all Demos