1930 to 1940 Timeline Outline

The Differential Analyzer
(1930)

Dewey Classification Numbers on Catalogue Cards
(1930)

The Deduction Theorem
(1930)

Hundreds of Thousands of Wind Turbines Power Farms in the U.S.
(Circa 1930 – 1945)

Visionary of New Reading Machines and Changes in the Process of Reading
(1930 – 1931)

The First Publications on Statistical Quality Control in Manufacturing
(April 1930 – 1939)

Foundation of Texas Instruments
(May 16, 1930)

Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
(1931)

The IBM 601 Multiplying Punch
(1931)

The First Commercially Successful Ballpoint Pen
(1931 – June 15, 1938)

The First "Talking-Books"
(1931)

Perhaps the First Successful Electronic Document Retrieval
(December 29, 1931)

Public Television Broadcasting Begins
(1932)

Times New Roman Debuts
(October 3, 1932)

The Biuro Szyfrow Breaks the Enigma Code
(December 1932)

Frequency Modulation (FM)
(1933 – 1936)

The First Commercially Successful Electric Typewriter
(1933)

The First Machine to Perform Complex Scientific Calculations Automatically
(1933 – 1934)

Burning 100,000,000 Books and Killing 6,000,000 People
(1933 – 1945)

Origins of the X-Planes and the Space Shuttle
(1933 – 1944)

42,500 Camps and Ghettos Were in Operation During the Holocaust
(1933 – 1945)

Hitler Seizes Power
(January 30, 1933)

Invention of the Sociogram: Some of the Earliest Graphic Depictions of Social Networks
(April 3, 1933 – 1934)

Purging Germany of Jewish Culture
(April 6 – April 8, 1933)

Burning 25,000 Volumes of "un-German" Books
(May 10, 1933)

Zuse Begins Working on Computers
(1934)

Creation of the FCC
(1934)

Picasso Depicts His Lover Reading at a Table
(1934)

Bradford's Law
(January 26, 1934)

The Hammond Electric Organ
(April 24, 1934 – April 1935)

Foundation of the U.S. National Achives
(June 19, 1934)

The Social Security Program Creates a Giant Data-Processing Challenge
(1935 – 1936)

The First Practical Tape Recorder
(1935)

Charga-Plate Precursor of the Credit Card
(Circa 1935 – 1950)

Penguin Books
(1935)

Kodachrome
(1935 – 1936)

Foundation of The Wilderness Society
(January 21, 1935)

Invention of Radar
(February 12, 1935)

The First Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator
(September 1935)

The Rapid Arithmetical Machine Project
(1936)

Proof of Undecidability
(1936)

The First Electronic Speech Synthesizer
(1936 – 1939)

Turing Studies with Alonzo Church
(1936 – 1938)

"Modern Times"
(1936)

Zuse's Z1: The First Freely Programmable Binary-Based Calculating Machine
(April 11, 1936)

"On Computable Numbers"
(May 1936)

The Turing Machine
(August 1936)

The Post-Turing Machine
(October 1936)

H. G. Wells and the "World Brain"
(November 20, 1936 – 1938)

Founding of the Society of American Archivists
(December 1936)

An Experimental Electromechanical Cryptanalysis Machine Capable of Binary Multiplication
(1937)

Turing and von Neumann Discuss What Will Eventually be Called "Artificial Intelligence"
(1937)

The First Independent Scientific Computing Service
(1937)

Elektro, the Most Famous Robot of the 1930s
(1937 – 1938)

"The Most Significant Master's Thesis of the 20th Century"
(August 10, 1937)

The First Electromechanical Computer Built in America
(November 1937)

Aiken Drafts a Proposal for the Harvard Mark 1
(November 1937)

Atanasoff Plans the ABC Machine
(Circa December 1937)

Zuse Completes the Z1
(1938)

Vannevar Bush's "Rapid Selector"
(1938)

Carlson invents Xerography
(1938)

La Realite Virtuelle
(1938)

The Bettmann Archive; the Beginning of the Visual Age
(1938)

Polish Cryptologic Bomb for Breaking Enigma-Machine Ciphers
(October 1938)

Mass Hysteria Induced by Electronic Media
(October 30, 1938)

Kristallnacht
(November 9, 1938)

Liste des schädlichen und unerwünschten Schrifttums
(December 31, 1938)

The "Earliest" Electronic Digital Computer
(1939)

Construction of the Harvard Mark I Begins
(1939)

Zuse Completes the Z2
(1939)

Fantasies of an All-Encompassing Archive or "Universal Library"
(1939)

DDT is Discovered, and Eventually Banned
(1939 – 1972)

One of the First "Maps of Science"
(1939)

The First Electromechanical Computer for Routine Use
(April 1939)

The Polish Cipher Bureau Reveals Enigma Decription Techniques to the French and British
(July 25, 1939)

The Full Extent of the Holocaust
(September 1939 – April 1945)

World War II Begins
(September 1, 1939)

The First Holocaust Museum
(September 1, 1939)

Britain and France Declare War on Germany
(September 3, 1939)

Turing Reports to Bletchley Park
(September 4, 1939)

"10,000 Operations per Second"
(October 15, 1939)