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Abacus
The abacus was created by the Chinese. It kept track of numbers by sliding beads across strings. -
Napiers Rods
They were created by John Napier. Its main purpose was to help people perform multiplication tasks. -
Slide rule
The slide rule is a manual device used for calculation. It looked like a ruler with a movable middle piece. -
Pascals Adding Machine
Blaise Pascal created the first mechanical adding machine. -
Weaving machines
Joseph Jaquard used cards with holes punched into them to guide weaving machines alowing intricate patterns to be created. -
Difference engine
Developed by Charles Baggage. It used cards with holes to operate its gears. -
Analytic engine
Charles Babbages second steam powered engine. Lady Ada Byron Lovelace is considered to be the worlds first computer programmer because she wrote a language for the machine. -
Tabulating Machine
Herman Hollerith used hole punched cards to operate a machine with electrical impulses. It was used to tabulate United Satates census information. -
Z1 computer
Konrad Zuse created the first freely programmable computer. -
Colossus
Collossus was a vacuum tube computing computer which broke Hitlers codes during World War II. -
ENIAC
Worlds First electronic large scale general purpose computer -
Vacuum tubes
Vacuum tubes were created. -
UNIVAC
This was the first computer that was commercial and able to pick presidential winners. -
FORTRAN
FORTRAN Computer Programming Language became the first successful programming language. -
Transistor
The transistor replaced the vacuum tube due to its reduced weight, cost, and its reliability. -
Spacewar
The first computer game is made. -
Mouse and Windows
The computer mouse was made by Douglas Engelbart. Windows also came out this year. -
ARPAnet
The internet, originally called ARPAnet, began as a military computer network. -
The floppy disk
The floppy disk was created. It is called floppy because if its flexibility. -
Apple
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs created the Apple. It was the first to have a mouse and a windows type graphical interface. -
Apple Lisa Computer
The first home computer with graphical user interface. -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the networked hypertyext system called the World Wide Web. -
ISPs
Large commercial Internet service providers begin to offer service. -
Personal Ditgital Assistants
PDAs become available to consumers. They can play games, music, and download information from the web. -
Drone pilots
The United States Air fource trained more drone pilots than regular pilots for the first time.
