History of Computing

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    Abacus

    Abacus
    The Egyptians invented this, but the Chinese simplified the abacus.
  • Period: 500 to

    History

  • The Calculating Clock

    Schickard invented the calculating clock. It was considerd the 1st true mechanical calculator.

  • Blaise Pascal

    Blaise Pascal was a mathematics genius. He invented the 1st calculating machin which he named after him;the Pascaline. It can only do adding and subtracting.

  • Slide Rule

    The Slide Rule was built in England in 1632 and still in use in the 1960's by NASA. This invention was derived from Napier's Bones.

  • Pascaline

    Pascaline
    The Pascaline is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal. Blaise Pascal went through 50 prototypes before presenting the Pascaline to the public in 1645.

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz was a philosopher, historian, and a scientist. He developred a calculator that could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.

  • Leibniz

    The Leibniz is a calculator invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. Unlike the Pascaline the Leibniz can add, subtract, multiply and divide. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz it was designed in 1673 but took until 1694 to complete.

  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Bbbage was known as the "Grandfather of Computing". He invented the difference engine. The difference engine could go up to 6 decimal places.

  • Augusta Ada Lovelace

    Augusta Ada Lovelace
    Ada Lovelace was a splendid mathematician. She was the "Countess of Lovelace'. Charles Babbage called her the "Enchantress of Numbers". She was the 1st computer programmer. A modern programming language was named after her it was called Ada.

  • Herman Hollerith

    Herman Hollerith was and engineer. He founded IBM. He got his idea for IBM from a conductor.

  • Tommy Flowers

    Tommy Flowers designed Colossus to help solve encrypted german messages. He worked with Alan M. Turing.

  • Alan M. Turing

    Alan M. Turing was the founder of computer science. He helped the British decode secret german messages. He also worked with Tommy Flowers.

  • IBM 610

    The IBM 160 was designed by John Lentz. It was considerd the 1st computer for personal use. It had a price tag of $55,000 and it only sold 180 units.

  • Steve Wozniak

    Engineer and Programmer. He co-founded Apple with Steve Jobs in the mid-70's.

  • Tim Berners Lee

    Tim Berners Lee ws the inventor of the world wide web.

  • Bill Gates

    Bill Gates started up Microsoft wuth Steve Balmer in 1975. He was also a nerd.

  • The 1st Handheld Mobile Phone

    The 1st handheld mobile phone was demonstrated by Martin Cooper who was a Motorola Researcher, and an execute. Martin Cooper is considered to be the inventor of the 1st practical mobile phone for handheld use.

  • Apple Lisa

    The Apple Lisa is a personal computer designed by Apple. It is a powerful personal computer with a GUI.

  • iPod

    The ipod is a line portable media players designed by Apple Inc.mIt sold approximately 300 million as of Oct 2011.

  • XBox

    The xbox is a sixth generation video console manufactured by Microsoft. Xbox 360 was released in September 2005.

  • Macbook

    Macbook
    The Macbook was a brand of Macintosh notebooks. It was built by Apple Inc. It was the best-selling Macintosh in history.

  • The Death of Steve Jobs

    Steve Jobs; the co-founder of Apple died because of cancer.

  • iPhone 4s

    The iphone 4s is a smartphone developed by Apple Inc. It is the 5th generation of the iPhone. It is the latest iphone yet.