History of the computer

  • Jan 21, 1550

    John Napier

    John Napier
    Named Marvellous Merchiston, was a Scottish landowner known as a mathematician, physicist, and astronomer. He was the 8th Laird of Merchistoun.
  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal
    He was a French mathematician, physicist, inventor, writer and Christian philosopher.He started calculating machines and he invented the mechanical calculator.
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    He was a mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, who is best remembered now for originating the concept of a programmable computer.
  • Lady Augusta Ada

    Lady Augusta Ada
    Commonly known as Ada Lovelace, was an English mathematician and writer chiefly known for her work on Charles Babbage's early mechanical general-purpose computer,
  • Howard Aiken

     Howard Aiken
    was a pioneer in computing, being the original conceptual designer behind IBM's Harvard Mark I computer.
  • Tommy Flowers

    Tommy Flowers
    He designed Colossus, the world's first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages.
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    was a British mathematician, cryptanalyst and computer scientist. He was highly influential in the development of computer science, giving a formalisation of the concepts of "algorithm" and "computation" with the Turing machine, which can be considered a model of a general purpose computer.
  • Jack Kilby

    Jack Kilby
    as an American electrical engineer who took part (along with Robert Noyce) in the realization of the first integrated circuit while working at Texas Instruments (TI) in 1958.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    Was an American entrepreneur,marketer,and inventor,who was the co-founder ,chairman, and CEO of Apple Inc.
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Is an American business magnate, investor, programmer, inventor and philanthropist. Gates is the former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft.
  • Larry Page

    Larry Page
    Is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who is the co-founder of Google, alongside Sergey Brin.
  • Sergey Brin

    Sergey Brin
    Is an American computer scientist and Internet entrepreneur who, with Larry Page, co-founded Google, one of the most profitable Internet companies