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Charles Babbage developing the first computer
Charles Babbage realised that humans make a lot of mistakes in arithmic and logical situations. In the early 1822's, he started to develop an idea for a machine called the Difference Engine. -
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Babbage is given money to build the mechanism
The government gave Babbage £1500 to build the Difference Engine, which he had designed. -
Analythical Engine
After discarding the idea of a Difference Engine, Charles Babbage started an idea for a Analythical Engine. The Analythical Engine is something like our computers, except that it was only able to do simple and basic analysis. -
Construction of the Difference Engine stops
The construction of the Difference Engine stops due to the lack of money. -
Z1
The Z1 was the first programmable computer. A german engineer named Konrad Zuse created this machine in 2 years (1936-1938). It is considered as the first programmable computer. -
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Also known as ABC, it is the first electronic digital computer. It was built by Dr John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. -
Colossus Mark 1
The Colossus Mark 1 was created by Tommy Flowers and was put into use in WW2. The Colossus is the first computer that was fully fuctional and was able to do more complicated things.
The Colossus was used to decipher the messages the German's were using to communicate. -
Harvard Mark 1
This electro-machanical computer, was built in 1944, by Howard Aiken and Grace Hopper. It was presented at Havard University on the 7th of August. -
ENIAC 1
The first electronical general-purpose computer that worked. When it was announced, it was given the nickname 'The Giant Brain'. -
The Transistor
The transistor wasn't actually a computer. But it had a great affection on the history of computers. It was a semiconductor device. -
UNIVAC 1
This machine was the first commercial computer, and was built by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly. -
ARPAnet
The ARPAnet is the original internet. -
Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers
The Scelbi & Mark-8 Altair & IBM 5100 Computers are the first computers that were actually released into the market. -
Apple 1
The first Apple computer was put into the markets in 1976. It looked nothing like the apple macs we see nowadays. -
Microsoft Corporation
Microsoft, a software maker, was founded in 1980 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen. -
Difference Engine 2 was completed
The London Science Museum completed the Difference Engine #2 that Babbage was never able to finish. -
Printing mechanism completed
The printing mechanism, made my Babbage, was completed by the London Science Museum in 2000. -
iMac
Apple has become a worldwide company and the iMac is one of its newest computer products. It looks nothing like the Apple 1, which was big and bulky. The iMac is thin, small, works at a brilliant speed. They even have special gadgets like Webcam, which didn't appear in old computers.
