1940s Computer inventions

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  • 1941-First Automatic Computer

    1941-First Automatic Computer

    Konrad Zuse, a German Computer Scientist, invented the first programmable fully automatic computer in history. the Germans didn't see any advantages of the invention, so it was destroyed. However, its creation was elaborated on in the future.
  • 1942- First Digital Electric Computer

    1942- First Digital Electric Computer

    Professor John Vincent Atanasoff invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the first electric digital computer in history. It solved linear equations but it was not programmable.
  • 1944- The First Programmable Electronic Digital Computer

    1944- The First Programmable Electronic Digital Computer

    British engineer Tommy Flowers created the Colossus to decipher code during WWII against the Germans. It’s held as the first programmable electronic digital computer in history.
  • 1945- First General-Purpose Digital Computer

    1945- First General-Purpose Digital Computer

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer is completed by professors John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert. It completed more calculations than in all of history previously.
  • 1947- First Computer Transistor

    1947- First Computer Transistor

    William Shockley invented the first transistor changing the course of computing history. The transistor replaced the common vacuum tube which allowed computers to be much more efficient while still greatly reducing their size and energy requirements.