1870

• Telephone


• Typewriter


• Carbon Paper

• Comptometer calculating machine


• Mimeograph machine


• Cash register


• Adding machine


• Pneumatic tubes

• Dictating and stenographic machines

• Loose-leaf ledger sheets


• Multigraph


• Two colour typewriter ribbon


• Addressograph

• Power statistical accounting machines


• Bookkeeping and billing machines


• (combinations of typewriter and computing machines).

• Adding/Subtracting calculation machine


• Ditto machines (gelatin duplicating)

• Bank check sorting/proofing machines


• Dial telephones


• Electric typewriters (earliest versions)


• Machine accounting systems (central records control, payroll)

• Mechanical listing printing calculators


• Punched card systems (payroll)


• Dictaphone/stenographic machines with plastic belts

• Electronic digital computers (transistors)


• Electronic digital computers (vacuum tubes)


• Data processing - paper and tape cards


• Xerographic duplication


• Data processing - telewriters
• Data processing - computypers

• Magnetic tape "selectric" typewriters


• Microchip computers


• Magnetic tape (replacing punched cards)


• Magnetic ink character recognition

• Microcomputers


• Optical scanning and recognition equipment


• Video display terminals for data/text editing


• Facsimile transmission


• Electronic (solid state) calculating machines

• Local area networks, integrated systems


• Non-impact printers


• Software packages for microcomputers

• PCs


• E-mail


• Internet

• Voice recognition technology perfected


• Virtual assistants

Reprinted with permission of the International Association of Administrative Professionals (IAAP), Web site: www.iaap-hq.org.