Computer

Computer

  • Someone invented the mechanical calculator

    Someone invented the mechanical calculator
    The mechanical calculator was a device that could do all four arithmetic problems without relying on human intellegence
  • Joseph Marie Jaquard improved the textile loom creating one of the first programable machines

    Joseph Improved the textile loom by introducing a series of punched paper cards which allowed his loom to produce intricate patterns automatically.
  • Charles Babbage Designes the first fully programmable mechanical computer

    Charles Babbage Designes the first fully programmable mechanical computer
    Charles Babbage designs the first fully programmable computer, but never finishes it.
  • Henry Babbage Simplifies the mechanical computer's computing unit

    Henry babbage simplifies the mechanical computer's computing unit and succesfully demonstrated its ability to compute tables in 1906, and gave the machine to the science museum in South Kensington in 1910.
  • Semiconductor Transistor-based machines replaced any previous computers

    Semiconductor Transistor-based machines replaced any previous computers
    Semiconductor Transistor-based machines replaced any previous computers in the 1960s
  • integrated circuit technology and the subsequent creation of microprocessors

     integrated circuit technology and the subsequent creation of microprocessors
    Microprocessors replace semiconductor transistors in computers and that where computers come form. Give or take a few details...