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The History of Computers

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    history of computers timeline

  • john napier

    john napier

    he created napiers bones which is a set of rods which can carry out complex calculations
  • joseph-marie jacquard

    joseph-marie jacquard

    he developed the weaving loom which used punch cards to replicate designed
  • charles babage

    charles babage

    he made a computer like machine that was called the "difference engine"
  • hermon hollerith

    hermon hollerith

    he created a punch card to count U.S. census
  • charles babbage's son

    charles babbage's son

    he compleated his fathers anylitical engine
  • lee de forest

    lee de forest

    he invented the electronic tube which made it posible to devolop the electronic computer
  • electornic machines

    electornic machines

    they were developed for the purpose of breaking german encryption codes.
  • howard h. aiken

    howard h. aiken

    he created the first program controlled calculator
  • ENIAC(electronic numerical integrator and computer)

    ENIAC(electronic numerical integrator and computer)

    capible of 100,000 calculations per second
  • william b. shockley

    william b. shockley

    he created a transistor
  • EDVAC

    EDVAC

    first computer to use magnetic tape for storage
  • UNIVAC I

    UNIVAC I

    first computer to produce in numpers for computers
  • intagrated circuit

    intagrated circuit

    changed computing forever
  • microprocessors

    microprocessors

    firstone was developed
  • supercomputer

    supercomputer

    first supercomuter was the cary 1
  • apple II

    apple II

    steve wozniak and steve jobs invented both apple I and II
  • personal computer

    personal computer

    commodore buisness machine introduced the first personal computer
  • microsoft

    microsoft

    microsoft wrote an operating system for a pc