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Napier's Rods
Made by John Napier, used to help people multiply by using rods -
The Pascaline
Created by Blaise Pascal, it was the first mechanical adding machine. Originaly made for his father, who was a French tax collecter -
Leibniz Calculator
Created by Gottfried Leivniz, was superior to the pascaline, it could do more than add and subtract, it could also multiply and divide, and even find square roots. -
Joseph Marie Jacuard
Joseph created a way to make weaving machines weave a certain way by using cards with holes punched into them. -
Difference Engine
Created by Charles Babbage, who used steam engines and Joseph's idea of cards with holes punched into them to calculate numbers. Sadly never worked. -
Analytic Engine
Also created by Charles Babbage, was run by a woman named Lady Ada Byron Lovelace who is thought to be the first computer programmar because she wrote language for the analytic engine. Sadly never worked. -
Z1 computer
First freely programmable computer -
Colossus
was massive, filled with 20,000 vacuum tubes and was used during WWII to decipher Hitler's coded messages -
Johm Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
First in the computer biz, also known as the ABC computer -
Hardvard Mark I computer
Hardvard Mark I computer -
Manchester Baby Computer & Williams Tube
The computer was a "baby" and the williams tubes stored memory -
UNIVAC Computer
First commercial computer, was able to pick presidential candidates -
IBM 701 EDPM Computers
International Business Machines enters computer history -
fortran computer Programming Language
First successful high level programming language -
The Intergrated Circuit
The first computer chip made by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce -
Spacewar Computer Game
First computer Game invented -
ARPAnet
The first internet used by the military -
Intel 1103 Computer Memory
The worlds first dynamic RAM chip -
Intel 4004 Computer Microprocessor
The first microprocesser made by intel -
The "Floppy" Disk
Nicknamed floppy for it's flexibility, made by IBM -
The Ethernet Computer Networking
Networking was created by Robert Metcalfe & Xerox -
IBM 5100 Computers
First consumer computer, made by Scelbi, Mark-8 Altair, and IBM -
Shelbi Mark 8 IBM 5100 computers
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Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commordore Pet Computers
A much cheeper product of computers than the IBM 5100 Computer -
VisiCalc Spreadsheet Software
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Word star Software program
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Ibm PC Home computer
First home computer, afforadable for everyone -
Ms-Dos Computer OP system
Operating system, used fo PC -
Apple Lisa computer
Computer created by Apple, used for home use -
Apple Macintosh
Computer created by Apple, called the macintosh. Had the first mouse and Desktop screen with icons -
Microsoft Windows
windos OS for PC's -
The Internet
Hyperlink and WWW created
