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Also known as the Calculating Clock, and created by Wilhelm Schickard. It could add and substract up to six-digit numbers. -
The beginnings of computers. They were able to do basic operations.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard created a loom which followed the instructions of a punched card, which is a perforated piece of cardboard in a specific order that can be interpreted by a machine. They could be changed by other cards without altering the loom. -
Created by Charles Babbage. Considered the first computer, it could calculate functions automatically. -
It was made by Ada Lovelace, one of the most important figures in computer's history. She explained how could machines be coded with a method of instruction repetition. Her work was not taken into account until less than a century ago. -
Made by Alan Turing. It's an hypothethical machine which with a strip of tape with squares on it, and it could follow any possible algorithm. It could read and write on the squares following its programmation. -
First electronic computers.
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First computer for general use. It was really big and complex, and could do several types of calculations. -
Vacuum valves are replaced by transistors.
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It was used for scientific and engineering calculations thanks to its ability to calculate numbers and to make scientific computations. -
The first integrated circuits were manufactured.
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The Intel-4004 revolutioned the market. CPUs are nowadays the main brain of all our computers. -
First microprocessors were made, and PCs started to appear.
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Artificial Intelligence started to develop. In development nowadays.
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This helped and keeps allowing computers and other devices to connect between each other without a wire.