History of Computing Project

History of the Computer

Period: Jan 1, 1550 to Dec 31, 1900

Napier's Bones

Jan 1, 1617

Scottish Mathematician. Multiplication Tables inscribed on wood.

Pascaline

Sep 10, 1642

Blaise Pascal made first operational calculating machine. Could only add or subtract. Made to help his father calculate his sums of money.

Step Reckoner

Sep 10, 1670

Gottfield von Lebiniz His calculating machine could multiply, divide, and evalulate square roots. Proposed first Binary Number System.

Jacquard Loom

Sep 10, 1800

silk weaver
real name was Joseph-marie jacquard
Developed use of punchcards to change the pattern

Charles Babbage

Sep 10, 1822

Father of the computer Made 2 types of Engines:
First type is Difference Engine
Second type was Analytical Engine Did not got finaced so never could build the actual machine
17,000 euros used of the govermants money but never finished
His envention was built in the 20thcentury by another man

The Punch Card Machine

Sep 10, 1889

Hermen Hollerith made the first Contribution to the Census Census of 1890

Ada Augusta Byron

Sep 10, 1900

Consisdered the first computer programmer
worked on Babbages idea and wrote codes to test it