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Blaise Pascal
age 18, inspired by the idea of making his dad's job of calculating taxes easier, Pascal invented the calculator, in his time it was called the Pascaline. -
Ada Lovelace
An erly prodigy who/ translated an article about an invention by Charles Babbage. Since Ada made many computer concepts she is considered to be the first computer programmer. -
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher and inventor whom lived in London, England. Often called “The Father of Computing,” Babbage designedd plans for mechanical Calculating Engines, Difference Engines, and Analytical Engines.Which is considered to be an mechanical digital computer. -
Herman Hollerith
Herman Hollerith was a statitician who began designing a machine to tabulate census data more efficiently than what they were using before hand methods. -
Differential Analyzer
Vannevar Bush and a group of students at MIT, built a calculator capable of solving differential equations -
Alan Turing
Famous for his paper about computable numbers that a universal algorithmic method of determining truth in math cannot exist. -
Hewlett Packard
David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage. Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. -
Grace Hopper
A Pioneer Computer Scientist who learned to program machines, putting together a 500-page Manual of Operations for the Automatic Sequence-Controlled Calculator in which she made the fundamental operating principles of computing machines. -
Bill Gates
Gates entered Harvard University as a freshman. While at Harvard, Gates developed a version of the programming language BASIC for the first microcomputer called the MITS Altair. -
Steve Jobs
An entrepreneur and inventor who started from his garage creating and selling computers as well as creating the programs -
PDA
Psion defined what a PDA was, and in 1984 they launched their first Digital Assistant. Nothing really hap pend after that. -
Tablets
Most people assume that the history of the tablet computer started when Apple introduced the iPad in 2010. In fact this is far from the case; there have been many previous attempts to build tablets before. Previous attempts all failed for one reason however, they could not be made small enough to be useful.
