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The Start of Computers

  • The Steam Driven Calculating Machine

    The Steam Driven Calculating Machine
    In 1822, Charles Babbage made the closest thing to a modern computer, driven by steam.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    A Telegraph machine was one of the components for early machines usually, made by Harrison Dyar. Made in the late 1820s.
  • Success with the Telegraph!

    Success with the Telegraph!
    Pavel Schilling happens to be the first to transmit a signal with the Telegraph.
  • Again with Charles Babbage!

    In 1837, Charles Babbage created the Analytical Engine, which was the first computer to use punch cards as memory.
  • "What hath God wrought"

    The first telegraphic message with the analytical engine was from Samuel Morse from Washington DC to Baltimore
  • Izrael Staffel

    Izrael Staffel
    Izrael demonstrated the Staffel's calculator in Warsaw
  • QWERTY

    QWERTY
    Christopher Sholes is issued with a typewriter with the QWERTY keyboard layout most keyboards have today
  • Printing

    Printing
    In 1888, William S. Burrough patents a printing adding machine.
  • Serbian Nikola Tesla!

    Nikola Tesla patents logical curcuits known as gates or switches (This one will not have a picture due to errors finding it.)
  • Henry Babbage

    Henry Babbage
    Henry Babbage makes a small and downgraded version to do basic calculations of the Analytical Engine.
  • OMG (Oh My Gosh!)

    One of the earliest recordings of OMG was in a message from Admiral John Arbuthnot Fisher to Winston Churchill during "The Great War", AKA World War 1.
    (No picture again due to errors finding it.)
  • Enigma Machine

    Enigma Machine
    Arthur Scherbius patents the Enigma machine
  • Nobel Prize Winner!

    Nobel Prize Winner!
    Jack St. Clair Kilby wins the Nobel Prize winner and is the inventor of the Intengrated Circuit, that happens to be a handheld calculator.
  • Polygraph Machine

    Polygraph Machine
    The Polygraph Machine, also known as the Lie Detector is used for the first time in 1935
  • George Stibitz

    George Stibitz
    George finishes his Complex Number Calculator that can divide, add, subtract, and multiply complex numbers.
  • ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer)

    The ENIAC is the first digital eletronic calculator/computer, and is considered the first digital computer.
  • Colossus, the codebreaker

    This was the first eletric programmable computer designed by Tommy Flowers, and is demonstrated.
  • Andrew Donald Booth

    Andrew Donald Booth
    Andrew creates a magnetic drum memory, two inches long and wide to be able to hold 10 bits per inch.
  • Australia, where every animal can kill you

    Australia, where every animal can kill you
    The Australian computer CSIRAC is ran in 1949.
  • The start of the Modern Age

    The start of the Modern Age
    The United States Government recieves the UNIVAC 1101, which was programmable and could store a lot of memory for the first time.