The Development of the Computer

By taylorsarathy
  • 1946 BCE

    UNIVAC

    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.

  • The Babbage Difference Engine

    Designed by Charles Babbage in 1822.

  • First Computer Programmer

    Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and the daughter of poet Lord Byron, writes the world's first computer program.

  • First Printing Calculator

    Swedish inventor Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard design the world's first printing calculator.

  • David Packard and Bill Hewlett

    David Packard and Bill Hewlett found the Hewlett Packard Company in Palo Alto, California.

  • ENIAC

    Two professors at the University of Pennsylvania, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, design and build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC).

  • EDSAC

    A team at the University of Cambridge develops the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC)

  • Modern Computer

    Douglas Engelbart reveals a prototype of the modern computer at the Fall Joint Computer Conference, San Francisco.

  • UNIX

    Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie and a group of other developers at Bell Labs produce UNIX

  • Macbook pro

    The MacBook Pro from Apple hits the shelves