Highlights
- 1755: "Network: Any thing reticulated or decussated, at equal distances, with interstices between the intersections." ~Samuel Johnson; Dict. of the English Language
- 1779: Luddite: Technophobia; Here's Where the Word Luddite Really Comes From
- 1792: Semaphore line optical telegraphy: messages to a distant observer through line-of-sight signals
- 1795: Metric system Napoleon Bonaparte initiates project to switch from the old imperial system of measurements to metric system.
For 10 years, scores of human "computers" made the necessary conversions and completed the tables; never published - How the Metric System Works
References
- Wikipedia: Timeline of computing hardware: 1641–1850
- Could We Have Built a Computer in the 18th Century? 11/12/2014