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Analytical Machine
The Analytical Engine was built by Charles Babbage in roughly the year 1837. The machine was created to be a general-purpose, fully program-controlled, automatic mechanical digital computer. Babbage worked on the analytical machine until his death in 1871. -
Hollerith Punch Cards
Hollerith invented and used a punched card device to help analyze the 1890 U.S. census data. His great breakthrough was his use of electricity to read, count and sort punched cards whose holes represented data gathered by the census-takers. His machines were used for the 1890 census and accomplished in one year what would have taken nearly 10 years of hand tabulating. -
Allen Turning- Turing Machine
One of Turing's most significant achievements was the development of the Universal Turing Machine in 1936. This groundbreaking concept laid the foundation for the first computer and revolutionized the world of computation. -
Hewlett-Packard
The company was founded on January 1, 1939, by William R. Hewlett and David Packard, two recent electrical-engineering graduates of Stanford University. The company established its reputation as a maker of sophisticated instrumentation. Its first customer was Walt Disney Productions, which purchased eight audio oscillators to use in the making of its full-length animated film Fantasia (1940). -
Grace Hopper
Grace Hopper was an American mathematician and rear admiral in the U.S. Navy who was a pioneer in developing computer technology. She continued to work in computing after the war, leading the team that created the first computer language compiler, which led to the popular COBOL language. She resumed active naval service at the age of 60, becoming a rear admiral before retiring in 1986. -
Douglas Engelbart
Douglas Engelbart was an American inventor whose work beginning in the 1950s led to his patent for the computer mouse, the development of the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware. In 1963 SRI partially funded Engelbart’s own research laboratory, the Augmentation Research Center, where he worked on inventing and perfecting various devices for inputting, manipulating, and displaying data. -
Apple
Apple was created by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in 1976. The company was initially named Apple Computer Co. and was incorporated on January 3, 1977, in Cupertino, California -
Windows
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Tim Bernes
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WIFI
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Iphone
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Chromebook
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Apple Watch