Technology

By corral30

  • Difference Engine

    Difference Engine
    First Mechanical computer to be used to output mathematical tables. Dues to its high production cost it was never completed. Created by Charles Babbage, Father of computer.

  • First Electronic Computer

    First Electronic Computer
    Used to find the solution for simultaneous linear equation. First computer to have electronic switches. Made by John Vincent Atanasoff & Clifford Berry.

  • First Programmable Electronic Computer

    First Programmable Electronic Computer
    a machine created to help the British decrypt German messages that were encrypted by the Lorenz cipher, back in World War II. It was programmed by electronic switches and plugs. Made by Tommy Flowers.

  • First Personal Computer

    First Personal Computer
    the first affordable digital computer that could perform four operations: addition, negation, greater than, and selection. The input was punched paper, and the program ran on paper tape. made by Edmund Berkeley.

  • First Real-Time Graphics Display Computer

    First Real-Time Graphics Display Computer
    one of the first computers that showed real-time output, Whirlwind. It became the lifeline for the US Air Defense system known as Semi-Automatic Ground Environment (SAGE). The computers showed tracks for the targets and automatically showed which defenses were within range.