computer history

  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal
    First adding machine invented
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    invented differential and analytical engines
  • ada lovelace

    ada lovelace
    considered first computer programmer
  • census counting machine

    census counting machine
    developed
  • Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith
    patented art of compileing statistics
  • tablet computers

    tablet computers
    first patent for earliest versions of such devices
  • differential analyzer

    differential analyzer
    first continuous intergraph
  • misc. event 1

    misc. event 1
    konrad zuse, first freely programmable computer
  • Period: to

    Time span

  • misc event 2

    misc event 2
    Howard Aiken & Grace Hopper, Mark I computer
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    produced automatic computing machine
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    patented
  • fortran

    fortran
    short for formula translation
  • misc. event 3

    misc. event 3
    John Backus & IBM, the first high level and successful computer programming language
  • bill gates

    bill gates
    original name is william
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    role in easy to use programming language
  • misc event 4

    misc event 4
    Steve Russell & MIT, invention of the first computer game
  • BASIC

    first designed
  • PC

    PC
    times when tech types could build and program their own
  • steve jobs

    steve jobs
    job as a technition at atari inc.
  • java

    java
    released in 1995
  • difference engine

    difference engine
    perfected in london
  • MARK II

    MARK II
    invented
  • c programming languate

    inventor dies at age of 70
  • PDA

    PDA
    can be both wireless and wired