Computer History 2

  • Difference Engine

    Difference Engine
    It was made so that it would not calculate mistakes like real people did
  • Analytical Engine

    Analytical Engine
    Supposedly the Successor of the Difference Engine but was never made
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    Computer History

  • Baldwin's Pinwheel calculator

    Baldwin's Pinwheel calculator
    Frank Baldwin’s 1872 “pinwheel” calculator design was the first significant advance.
  • Colossus

    Colossus
    The ability to send out secret code orders to Nazi troops in WW1 led to mass destruction so allied mathematicians and engineers worked together to build a machine capable of cracking the codes: Colossus
  • Hewlett Packard

    Hewlett Packard, or HP, is an American multi nation information technology company headquartered in California, United States. there are most specialised into creating electronic goods, such as computers. The company was founded in a one-car garage in Palo Alto by William Redington Hewlett and Dave Packard, starting with a line of electronic test equipment. HP is the world's leading PC manufacturer and has been since 2007, fending off a challenge by Chinese manufacturer Lenovo.
  • ENIAC

    ENIAC
    ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), built between 1943 and 1945—the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts.
  • Apollo Spacecraft launch

    Apollo Spacecraft launch
    IBM and North American Rockwell designed the Information Management System (IMS) as a general purpose program for both database management and data communications (DB/DC) functions. Using IMS, Rockwell Space managed the manufacturing control information needed to build Apollo manned spacecraft for lunar missions.
  • Internet In a box

    Internet In a box
    The Internet was created in 1991 and 1994 and became of the world’s most useful tools.