Inventions in computer history for 1800s By Fadimata 1801 Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom and it was used punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs. 1821 Charles Babbage invents of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers 1848 Ada Lovelace and the daughter of poet Lord Byron writes the world's first computer program. 1853 Swedish inventor Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard create the world's first printing calculator 1890 Herman Hollerith invents a punch-card system to help calculate the 1890 U.S. Census.
