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(https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html)
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In 1910, Henry Babbage, Charles Babbage's youngest son, was able to complete a portion of this machine and perform basic calculations. -
At the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Vannevar Bush invents and builds the Differential Analyzer, the first large-scale automatic general-purpose mechanical analog computer, according to Stanford University.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/computing-history/#Bab -
This is the first electromechanical binary programmable computer and the first functional modern computer.
http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/det/6170/Zuse-Z1-built-by-Konrad-Zuse/ -
The Turing machine was first proposed by Alan Turing in 1936 and became the foundation for theories about computing and computers. The machine was a device that printed symbols on paper tape in a manner that emulated a person following a series of logical instructions. Without these fundamentals, we wouldn't have the computers we use today.
About Alan (https://www.livescience.com/29483-alan-turing.html) -
Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S., called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory, and is capable of performing one operation every 15 seconds, according to the book "Birthing the Computer" -
Two professors at the University of Pennsylvania, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, design and build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC). The machine is the first "automatic, general-purpose, electronic, decimal, digital computer," according to Edwin D. Reilly's book "Milestones in Computer Science and Information Technology"
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor. They discover how to make an electric switch with solid materials and without the need for a vacuum.
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A team at the University of Cambridge develops the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC), "the first practical stored-program computer," according to O'Regan. "EDSAC ran its first program in May 1949 when it calculated a table of squares and a list of prime numbers."
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Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications.
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Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. He also won a Nobel prize.
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Douglas Engelbart reveals the first ever computer mouse.
(https://dougengelbart.org/content/view/209/) -
Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.
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Altair 8080 as the "world's first minicomputer kit to rival commercial models.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak co-found Apple Computer on April Fool's Day. They unveil Apple I, the first computer with a single-circuit board and ROM (Read Only Memory), according to MIT.(https://www.livescience.com/16442-visionary-science-steve-jobs.html)
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The iPad, Apple's flagship handheld tablet, is unveiled.
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Google releases the Chromebook, which runs on Google Chrome OS.
