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Konrad Zuse designed the first working programmable and fully automatic digital computer in 1935 and finished it in 1941.
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Atanasoff and student Clifford Berry design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S. Was able to store information on main memory and perform one operation every 15 second.
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First programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer (all in one).
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor. A transistor computer that uses transistors instead of vacuum tubes.
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Maurice Wilkes and a team at the University of Cambridge developed the EDSAC. It was able to calculate a table of squares and a list of prime numbers.