History Of Computers

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  • First Calculator

    Blaise Pascal invents the first calculator which could add and subtract

  • Calculator with more features

    Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz made another calculator with could multiply and divide as well as add and subtract

  • Difference engine

    Charles Babbage created a difference engine (mechanical computer) which was designed but never created

  • Jacquard Loom

    Joseph Marie Jacquard invented the Jacquard Loom

  • Codebreakers at Bletchley Park

    During WW2, code breakers cracked codes to figure out what enemy messages meant

  • Colossus

    Tommy Flowers and Alan Turing created a massive, electronic, digital, programmable and it was called Colossus

  • ASCC computer

    Howard Aitkin made an ASCC computer and a little relay to replace the valve to makecomputers smaller

  • First Integrated Circuit

    Jack Kilby invented first integrated circuit in 1959 which meant computers could become smaller and more reliable.

  • COLBOL

    Dr Grace Murray Hopper invented COLBOL language to use English for variable names