Joseph Marie Jacquard made an improvement to the textile loom by introducing a series of punched paper cards as a template which allowed his loom to weave intricate patterns automatically.
John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry of Iowa State University developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer, a special purpose computer for solving systems of linear equations, and which employed capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum, for memory.
The first electronic digital computers were developed in the mid-20th century (1940–1945). Originally, they were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers (PCs).[1] In this era mechanical analog compute
The first program-controlled computer was invented by Konrad Zuse.
The Zuse Z3 was considered the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computing machine