History of Computers

  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal created the first ever calculator (taking away the abacus)
  • Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnits

    just 30 years after the calculator was made a updated version is produced with multiplying and dividing too!
  • Joseph-Marie Jacquard

    The Jacquard loom was discovered in 1804
  • Charles Babbage

    the diference engine was put under construction but never built!
  • Augusta Ada

    Helped Babbage with the babbage program and helped build it
  • Bletchley Park

    in WW2, code breakers used machines called collosus to decipher german messages
  • Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing

    they built the machine "collosus" that deciphered german messages
  • John Vincent Atanosoff

    ABC digital computer 1st digital computer
  • Howard Aiken

    Howard created mechanical relay instead of valve
  • Dr. Grace Hopper

    Cobol Language
  • Jack Kilby

    integrated circuit (first used in calculators)
  • Bill Gates

    built a computer to help traffic in seattle
  • Steve Jobs

    in 1976 the Apple 1 was produced and costs $600
  • apple 2

    the apple 2 is released as an upgrade to the apple 1
  • Bill Gates

    creates operating system MS-DOS
  • race for no.1

    apple produce mac first then microsoft makes windows 3
  • Larry Page and Sergey Brin

    backrub invented a search engine
  • apple iPod