Computer History

  • Mechanical Calculator

    Mechanical Calculator
    Kelly Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator
  • Jacquard loom punched card

    Jacquard loom punched card
    AlanaThese cards were important to our lives because without punch cards, the computer would not be able to function properly. Even though they were important to us a long time ago but they were still the factors that helped run the computer.
  • Augusta Ada king

    Augusta Ada king
    Helen
    Ada Lovelace was born 10 December 1815, from Lord Byron and his wife Anne Isabella Byron.
  • Chester Carlson's “Xerox Machine”

    Chester Carlson's “Xerox Machine”
    Muskaan“Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle,Washington.He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy.
  • Transistors

    Transistors
    AnavatThe transistor is a semiconductor device that is used to switch electronic signals and power. It started to develop in the 1950’s and its still the building block for electronics today.
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    Sharon Tim Berners-Lee is British computer scientist. He is known as an inventor of World Wide Web(www.)
  • Integrated Circuit (chip) - Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce

    Integrated Circuit (chip) - Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce
    Jaisa
    The Integrated Circuit was first invented on March 24, 1959. It is one of the most important devices to be ever invented. Society wouldn’t have personal computers or electronics without it. It is said to be the invention that changed everything.
  • Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby - WordStar Software

    Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby - WordStar Software
    TinaWordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program that is produced for the microcomputers, and it is also the best selling software program of the early eighties.
  • MS-DOS Computer Operating System

    MS-DOS Computer Operating System
    FiatMicrosoft Disk Operating System is an operating system for personal computer It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems and was the main operating system for IBM P.
  • Apple Lisa Computer

    Apple Lisa Computer
    NeenaThe Apple Lisa was immediately recognized as a significant machine. The new Lisa is referred to as the Lisa ⅖, the 5 stand for external 5 Meg Profile drive.
  • Douglas Engelbart's invention of the Mouse

    Douglas Engelbart's invention of the Mouse
    SamiThe mouse is an input device which is used to move the cursor around in the screen. The mouse is also known as a pointer. It is a hardware. The mouse was invented by an American inventor named Douglas Engelbart.