computer timeline

  • Bell Laboratories scientist George Stibitz uses relays for a demonstration adder

  • Hewlett-Packard is founded

  • The Complex Number Calculator (CNC) is completed

  • Konrad Zuse finishes the Z3 Computer

  • The first Bombe is completed

  • The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) is completed

  • Bell Labs Relay Interpolator is completed

  • Curt Herzstark designs Curta calculator

  • Project Whirlwind begins

  • First Colossus operational at Bletchley Park

  • Harvard Mark 1 is completed