First Programmable Automata built by medieval scientist Al-Jazari
Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wodden cards to automatically weave fabric designs in France
English mathematician, CHarles babbage, makes a steam-driven calculating machin that can put computer tables of numbers
Alan Turing creates a unicersal machine, later called the Turing machine. Can compute anything computable
Atanasoff and Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneaously. First time a computer can store information in its memory.
John Machly and J. Presper Eckert build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator and will be considered the grandfather of digital computers.
William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor
Grace Hopper makes the first computer language.
Douglas Engelbart shows a protoype of a modern computer, with a mouse and graphical user interface.
People of Bell Labs produce UNIX, a operating system that addressed compatibiliy issues.
First Dynamic Acces Memory chip.
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak start Apple Computers