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Charles Babbage comes up with a better way to crunch numbers by inputing it into a machine. He goes to the government and they give him money to make the machine. Nothing had ever been built like it took a lot of money
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Charles Babbage was able to create enough parts to make a section of the difference engine. Though it took too long and too much money.
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Charles Babbage stops working on the
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With the government pooling in over £17,000 without any working eveidence of teh engine the goverenment pools out and stops the project.
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A man by the name of Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calulate the 1880 census. He then later starts the company IBM.
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Atanasoff is able to make a computer able to store information on it's main memory.
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During this time period ENIAC is made and devloped. It take 18,000 vaccum tubes to be made and used. Can only be on for 1-hour and work before the vaccum tubes break.
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UNIVAC is made during this time and is the first time the public gets to use this technology and work with it.
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Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL
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The FORTRAN programming language is born.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce make the first integrated circuit, known as the computer chip.
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Douglas Engelbart shows a prototype of the modern computer, with a mouse and a graphical user interface. He doesn't produce it but others will.
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The first personal computers hit the shelves for the public to use at home and work on at home. Some of the computers were the Scelbi Mark-8 Altair and IBM 5100.
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Jobs and Wozniak make Apple and show the Apple II at the first West Coast Computer Faire. It offers color graphics and an audio cassette drive for storage.
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Wi-Fi is invented during this time and si able to change many things. Wi-Fi was able to make computers wirless and able to get signal from internet hot spots
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This makes a huge step forward by puting many parts of a computer into a machine. It was able to do many thing and is going to grow in just a few years.
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The latest in technology, this new device is able to compute twice as fast as the iPhone 5. This is the latese in tecnology witht the highest phone processor in a phone
