Computer History Timeline

By Tyler Bengtson

  • 1613

    The word ''computer'' was first recorded as being used in 1613.
    https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm

  • 1617

    John Napier introduced a system called ''Napiers Bones''. A device that allowed the capability of multiplying. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm

  • 1623

    The first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm.
    https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm

  • 1642

    1642
    Frances Pascal invents a machine called the Pascaline that can add, subtract, and carry between digits.

  • 1804

    Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards.

  • 1820

    Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer," the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide.

  • 1831

    Joseph Henry of Princeton invented the first working telegraph.

  • 1837

    Charles Babbage first purposed the Analytical Engine, which was the first computer to use punch cards as memory and a way to program the computer.

  • 1872

    The first modern analog computer was a tide-predicting machine, invented by Sir William Thomson in 1872.

  • 1878

    The first keyboard to have a Shift key is introduced on the Remington No. 2 typewriter introduced in 1878 that had one Shift key on the left side of the keyboard.

  • 1900

    Charles Baggage, an English mechanical engineer, originated the concept of a programmable computer.

  • 1906

    Henry Babbage, completed a simplified version of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906.

  • 1911

    The company now known as IBM was founded on June 16, 1911, in the state of New York. a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

  • 1924

    The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company was renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

  • 1936

    The principle of the modern computer was proposed by Alan Turing in 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

  • 1938

    By 1938, the United States Navy had developed an electromechanical analog computer small enough to use aboard a submarine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

  • 1941

    In 1941, Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

  • 1953

    A team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves in 1953. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

  • 1971

    The ILLIAC IV supercomputer is created in 1971.

  • 1976

    Gary Kildall develops the first commercially successful operating system for microcomputers. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1976/

  • 1977

    In 1977, the Apple ll was created. Millions of Apple IIs were sold between 1977 and 1993, making it one of the longest-lived lines of personal computers. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1977/

  • 1978

    The LaserDisc is introduced in 1978. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1978/

  • 2009

    Windows 7 is released by the company Apple.

  • 2010

    In 2010 tablets and smartphones replace more and more functionality of the PC.

  • 2018

    In 2018, Apple designed IOS 12