(Computer History) Inventors related to Computer and IT

Computer Science and IT field is full of new innovations and inventions and for quiz competitions you should memorize all the major inventions and inventors and be familiar with the story behind the invention. Give it a thorough research for every question yourself as well. You may find some other stuffs too. And as always this is just a collection of note that I made during my preparation. Also dubious ones are marked asterisk.




  1. Mouse                      ---                    Douglas Engelbart
  2. Monitor                    ---                    Jhon Ericson (or Allen B. Dumont)**
  3. Keyboard                 ---                    Christopher Latham Sholes
  4. Vaccum Tube           ---                    Lee de Forest
  5. Scanner                    ---                    Russell Kirsch                       
  6. Touch Pad                ---                    George E. Gepheid
  7. Touch Screen           ---                     E. A Jhonson
  8. RAM                        ---                     Robert Dennard
  9. Optical Disk             ---                     David Paul Gregg
  10. USB                         ---                      Ajay Bhatt
  11. Disk drive                ---                      Reynold B. Jhonson
  12. Wifi                          ---                     Jhon O' Sullivar
  13. Mobile Phone          ---                      Martin Cooper
  14. C.D                          ---                      James Russell
  15. LDC                         ---                      George H Helimeier
  16. Speaker                    ---                       Peter L. Jensen
  17. PC                            ---                       ED Roberts
  18. Processor                 ---                       Marcian 'Tedd' Hoff, Federico Faggin, Stanley Mazor
  19. Punchcard                ---                       Herman Hollerith
  20. Bluetooth                 ---                       Jaap Haartsen (while working at Ericsson Company)
  21. Remote Control       ---                       Nikola Tesla
  22. GPS                         ---                       Ivan A Getting
  23. Xerography             ---                       Chester carlsen
  24. Computer Graphics ---                       Willian Fetter
  25. Meme                      ---                       Richard Dawkins
  26. Camera                   ---                        Joseph Nicephore Niepce (or Johann Zahn)
  27. EMail System         ---                        Raymond Samuel (Ray) Tomlinson
  28. TCP/IP                    ---                       Vint Cerf, Robert elliot 'Bob' Kahn
  29. Transistor                ---                        William Shockley
  30. Laser Printer           ---                         Gary Strakweather (at XEROX)
  31. Floppy Disk            ---                        Alan Shugart (in 1967)
  32. Digital Camera       ---                         Steven sasson
  33. Track ball               ---                         Tom Cranston & Fred Longstaff
  34. Lifi                          ---                        Harold Haas
  35. Optical Mouse        ---                         Steve Krisch
  36. Laptop                     ---                         Adam Osborn
  37. Intergrated Circuit   ---                         Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce




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