The first stored-program computer is developed by John von Neumann in the USA

  1. The first stored-program computer is developed by John von Neumann in the USA

  2. First retransmission of televised images by electromagnetic waves between London and Paris

  3. Invention of the laser, an innovation that led to work on fiber optics in the 1970's

  4. Launch of the first geo-stationary satellites, Intelsat I (Early Bird)

  5. Connection of the first computers among four American universities via IMPs, the forerunner of routers