Computing history & automobile history

Abacus

Jan 1, 1000

Abacus was invented 1000BC~ 500BC. It was invented by Egyptians and modified by the Chinese, used to add add and subtract by hand.

Blaise Pascal

Jun 19, 1623

He was a French mathematics genius. He invented the first calculating machine with 8 rotating gears and wheels.

Ferdinand Verbiest

Oct 9, 1623

Ferdinand Verbiest was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of the Kangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy.

Pascaline

Jan 1, 1642

The pascaline was first invented by Braise Pascal. He got this idea while trying to help his father who's job was to collect taxes.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

Jul 1, 1646

He was a German philosopher, historian, and scientist. He developed a calculator that can add, subtract, multiply, divide.

Steam-powered vehicle

Jan 1, 1672

Steam-powered vehicle was 65 cm-long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. It was designed by Ferdinand Verbiest but constructed by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.

Leibniz calculator

Jan 1, 1673

Leibniz calculator can multiply, devide, add and substract.

Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot

Oct 2, 1725

Nicolas Joseph Cugnot built the first full-scale, self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile.

François Isaac de Rivaz

Dec 19, 1752

François Isaac de Rivaz was a swiss inventor who designed his own 'de Rivaz internal combustion engine.

Richard Trevithick

Apr 13, 1771

Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. His most significant contribution was to the development of the first high pressure steam engine. He also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.

Charles Babbage

Dec 26, 1791

Charles Babbage was an English inventor and mathematician. He is the grandfather of computing designs the first general purpose of computer.

Nicéphore Niépce

Mar 7, 1795

Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called a Pyréolophore, but they chose to install it in a boat on the river Saone in France.

Puffing devil road locomotive

Jan 1, 1801

Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive. It is believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle.

Pyréolophore

Jan 1, 1807

Pyréolophore was world's first internal combustion engine.

de Rivaz internal combustion engine

Jan 1, 1807

de Rivaz internal combustion engine developed the world's first vehicle to be powered by such an engine.

Agusta Ada Lovelace

Dec 10, 1815

Agusta Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician. She was the first computer programmer. She created a program for the Analytical Engine.

Difference Engine/ Analytical Engine

Jan 1, 1833

Have 5 parts:
- The mill or calculating unit
- The store( memory)
- An input device
- A control section
- Printer

Gustave Trouvé

Jan 2, 1839

Gustave Trouvé was a French electrical engineer and inventor of the 19th century.

Karl Benz

Nov 25, 1844

Karl Benz was a German engine designer and car engineer, He is the founder of Mercedes-Benz. Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.

George Selden

Sep 14, 1846

Gearge Selden was a patent lawyer and inventor who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895.

Rudolf Diesel

Mar 18, 1858

Rudolf Diesel invented the first diesel.

Herman Hollerith

Feb 29, 1860

Herman Hollerith was an American engineer and scientist. He was the first one to make modern day computer.

Gasoline internal combustion engine

Jan 1, 1877

Gasoline internal combustion engine was made in 1877 by George Selden.

Three wheeled automobile

Nov 1, 1881

Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris.

Benz Patent-Motorwagen

Jan 29, 1886

Karl Benz was awarded the patent for its invention as of his application.

Daimler engines

Jan 1, 1890

By 1895 about 30 vehicles had been built by Daimler and Maybach, in 1890, Émile Levassor and Armand Peugeot of France began producing vehicles with Daimler engines,

Diesel Engine

Jan 1, 1892

German engineer Rudolf Diesel built the first diesel engine.

Gasoline-powered American car

Jan 1, 1893

Gasoline-powered American car was built and road-tested by the Duryea brothers

Boxermotor

Jan 1, 1896

Benz designed and patented the first internal-combustion flat engine, called boxermotor.

Tommy Flowers

Dec 22, 1905

Tommy Flowers was an English engineer. He designed colossus. He was world's first programmable electron computer. He solved the German language.

Alan M.Turing

Jun 23, 1912

Alan M.Turing was an English mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker. He decode secret German messages and predict the missile targets. He was also the founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker.

Vacuum Tube Technology

Jan 1, 1919

Vacuum Tube Technology was one of hundreds of blocks that held the <1000 Vacuum tubes.>

Transistors

Feb 10, 1950

1 transistor = 3 vacuum tubes.

Steve Wozniak

Aug 11, 1950

Steve Wozniak is an American engineer and programmer. He co- founded apple computers in the mid-70s.

Tim Berners Lee

Jun 8, 1955

Tim Berners Lee is an English physicist, professor, and computer scientist. He was the inventor of WWW. and http://. He was the president of the WWW foundation.

Bill Gates

Oct 28, 1955

Bill Gates is an American programmer, inventor, business magnate and philanthropist. He started microsoft in 1975.

First integrated circuit

Jul 10, 1958

First integrated circuit was combined together into a very small space, farming an integrated circuit.

Mainframe & minicomputer

Feb 10, 1960

Minicomputer is a machine that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the smallest mainframe computers and the microcomputers.

Microprocessors

Jan 1, 1971

Microprocessors are silicon chips that contains a CPU. Microprocessors also control the logic of almost all digital devices.