The Computer Timeline

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  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal
    Invented first calculator.
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage
    Inventor & mechanical engineer who originated the concept of a programmable computer. The meaning or another term of a programmable computer would consist of a computer that follows a set of instructions. Many electronic devices are computers that perform only one operation, but they are still following instructions that reside permanently in the unit.
  • Difference Engine

    Difference Engine
    A difference engine is an automatic mechanical calculator designed to tabulate serveral terms of functions.
  • Ada Lovelace

    Ada Lovelace
    Analyst, Metaphysician, and Founder of Scientific Computing.
  • Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith
    Herman built the first punched-card tabulating.
  • Census Counting Machine

    Census Counting Machine
    The Census counting machine was used for the 1980 U.S.A Census.
  • Differential Analyzer

    Differential Analyzer
    The differential analyser is a mechanical analogued computer designed to solve differential equations, using wheel-&-disc.
  • Grace Hopper

    Grace Hopper
    Grace was an American computer scientist. She was one of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer & come up with the computerprogramming language.
  • BASIC

    BASIC
    BASIC is a family of general-purpose, high-level programming languages used on modern computers.
  • C

    C
    C is one of the most widely used programming languages of all time.
  • PC

    PC
    The PC computer was one of the first personal computers invented.
  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates
    Gates is the former chief executive & current maker of Microsoft, the world’s largest personal-computer software company ever to be made. Wealthiest man overall from 1995 to 2009, excluding 2008, when he was ranked third in 2011 he was the wealthiest American & the second wealthiest person ever.
  • Java

    Java
    Java is as of 2012 one of the most popular programming languages in use for web applications, etc & with a report of 10 million users who use Java.
  • PDA

    PDA
    A personal digital assistant (PDA), also known as a personal data assistant & also is known as a mobile device that functions as a personal information manager.
  • Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs
    He is best known as the co-founder, maker, and creator of Apple Inc.
  • Tablet Computers

    Tablet Computers
    The iPad is a tablet computer designed & marketed by Apple Inc.
  • Alan Turing

    Alan Turing
    was a British mathematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist.