Computer History Timeline

By ksmoot95

  • John Napier introduced a system called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting.

    John Napier introduced a system called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting.
    made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting.
  • Period: to

    Computer History

  • Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits.

    Frances Blaise Pascal invents a machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry between digits.
    that can add, subtract, and carry between digits.

  • Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates binary arithmetic, a discovery that shows every number can be represented by 0 and 1 only.

    Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates binary arithmetic, a discovery that shows every number can be represented by 0 and 1 only.
    a discovery that shows every number can be represented by 0 and 1 only

  • Basile Bouchon and Jean- Baptiste Falcon create punch cards

    Basile Bouchon and Jean- Baptiste Falcon create punch cards
    Punch cards are created using paper rolls.

  • Benjamin Franklin flies a kite

    Benjamin Franklin flies a kite
    that collects a charge after being struck by lightning.

  • George Lesage invents first telegraph

    George Lesage invents first telegraph
    Using a single wire of alphabets Lesage invents first telegraph.

  • Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "arithometer

    Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "arithometer
    first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine.

  • Charles Babbage purposes the Analytical Engine.

    Charles Babbage purposes the Analytical Engine.
    Design was created for the difference engine which had memory and incorporated arithmetic logic, control flow.

  • Samuel Morse dispatches first telegraphic message

    Samuel Morse dispatches first telegraphic message
    Message was transmitted from Washington D.C, to Baltimore.

  • ENIAC is invented by John Mauchley and J. Presper Eckert in 1946

    ENIAC is invented by John Mauchley and J. Presper Eckert in 1946
    Considered the first electrical computer the ENIAC was capable of being reprogrammed and solve a full range of problems.

  • Steve Wozniak creates the first Apple computer

    The first apple computer is created Steve Jobs joins later on.

  • Paul Allen and Bill Gates create Microsoft Windows

    A new system Microsoft Windows was first introduced for computers.

  • EA releases the Sims games

    EA releases the sims game the best selling PC game of all time.

  • Apple introduces Mac OS X 10.0

    The revolutionary mac is created.

  • Microsoft windows xp 2003 is released

    Microsoft Windows xp 2003 is released which happens to be an improvement from previous installations.