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Charles Bubbage invented the first mechanical computer
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Charles Bubbage realized a more general version could be made
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This was a tide-predicting machine, invented by Sir William Thomson
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Henry Babbage (Charle's Son) completed a simplified version of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888.
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Henry Babbage gave a successful demonstration in computing tables
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The principle of the modern computer was first described by computer scientist Alan Turing, who put the idea in his seminal paper
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The United States Navy had developed an electromechanical analog computer small enough to use aboard a submarine.
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The Z2, created by German engineer Konrad Zuse, was one of the earliest examples of an electromechanical relay computer
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Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable
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Computers start getting more common and popular, but were put out in 1977
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Portable computers grew in popularity in the 2000s.
