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Pascal Calculator
Is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal which adds 1 to 9 on one dial, and carries 1 to the next dial when the first dial changes from 9 to 0. His innovation made each digit independent of the state of the others, enabling multiple carries to rapidly cascade from one digit to another regardless of the machine's capacity -
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First calculators and computers
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Perfected Pascal's mechanical calculator. He also invented another calculator that could multiplicate. -
Charles Babbage
Babbage's analytical machine is considered to be the first computer in history. A fully functional initial design of it was completed in 1835. -
Herman Hollerith
During the 1880s the American statistician Herman Hollerith conceived the idea of using punched cards, similar to Jacquard plates, to process data. -
First Keyboard
The first keyboard is used and created instead of punch cards. Now people can efficiently enter in information quikly. -
First Generation
Many computing machines were built due to their large size and sophisticated cooling system and operated very slowly. -
Phillipe Dreyfus
He became a professor on the computer science faculty at Harvard University using Mark I, the first automated computer ever built. -
First computer mouse
Douglass E. Invents the first computer mouse, becasue of the tail sticking our of the end of it, it was celled a mouse. -
IBM 360
IBM marked the beginning of this generation on April 7, 1964, with the launch of the IBM 360, with integrated SLT technology. -
Second Generation
The transistors, which solved the problem of the size and heating of computers, played a leading role. -
Third Generation
Thousands of electronic components are placed in a miniature integration. This is the beginning of the computers we know today. -
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Computers as we know them today
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Fourth Generation
Microprocessors and personal computers, networks, shared and interactive processes appear and their use is also diversified -
First portable computer
Altair invents the first portable computer -
Fifth generation
Artificial intelligence is beginning to be used, both in terms of hardware and software, to solve complex problems such as machine translation from one language to another. -
The World Wide Web
The World wide Web was launched in August 6. Information can now be passed around the world in less than seconds. -
Sixth Generation
The era of computers based on artificial neural networks or "artificial brains". These are computers that use superconductors as raw material for their processors. (The image is of a PC that we could obtain today).