History of Computers

  • John Napier
    Jan 1, 1550

    John Napier

    He invented logarithms which use look-up to find the answer to error-prone math problems.
  • Blaise Pascal (Pascaline)

    Blaise Pascal (Pascaline)

    Blaise Pascal was a mathmatician who worked on calculus. The pascaline didn't work because of unreliable mechanical parts.
  • Slide Rule

    Slide Rule

    It works on the basics from logarithms.
  • Stepped Reckoner

    Stepped Reckoner

    The stepped reckoner was built by Gotfried Willhelm. He loved the binary system so he used it to control the machine.
  • Jaquard's Loom

    Jaquard's Loom

    Built a model for the modern computer. He used punched cards to put information in the machine.
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    Babbage tried to make a calculating machine, but to try to make sure he made no mistakes he had the figures done twice. He was also considered the Father of Computers.
  • Lady Augusta Ada Countess of Lovelace

    Lady Augusta Ada Countess of Lovelace

    She was the first computer programmer.
  • Herman Hollerith's Electronic Tabulating Machine

    Herman Hollerith's Electronic Tabulating Machine

    He made a card sorter with a charged pin that made it work by going through holes in punched cards.
  • Dr. Grace Murray Hopper

    Dr. Grace Murray Hopper

    She was a mathmatician who attended Yale and taught math at Vasser.She worked at Harvard on the Mark l.
  • Konrad Zuse

    Konrad Zuse

    He needed a completly different approach to make the computer. He made his machine out of relays.They used the binary system to turn it off and on.
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing

    Alan basically started modern electronic digital computing. His machine used a stream of 1s and 0s or as we call it the binary system.
  • Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

    Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

    It was an early special purpose electronic computer that may have been built by Vincent Atanasoff.
  • UNIVAC

    UNIVAC

    It was a very expensive computer back in 1968 when it costed $1,801,035 and now it costs about the same as an average calculator.
  • Harvard's Mark l

    Harvard's Mark l

    Howard Aiken began to build like Charles Babbage. He made the hardware almost the same as Babbage's hardware. Aiken started with the Mark l and got to the Mark lV.
  • Transistor

    Transistor

    They are built into computer chips. It also switches an electric current off and on in a computer.
  • Vacuum tube

    Vacuum tube

    A valve controlled the electronic current going through it.
  • Intergrated circut

    Intergrated circut

    Componets are connected to make it work and it has transistors.
  • Microprocessor

    Microprocessor

    Transistors are built into microprocessors. It is also about the size of a postage stamp.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC

    It was a good calculating important computer.