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Machine Pascal
The inventor and mathematician Blaise Pascal designed and built the first mechanical calculator, called in his honor pascalina. Fance. -
The binary system
The philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz continues with the development of the binary system, with a didactic numbers that every number could be expressed through a series of ones and
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Electricity
. Ben Franklin, scientist and inventor in addition to political, performed the first observations and experiments with electricity.United States -
analytical engine
Charles Babbage, mathematician and computer scientist, devised the first analytical engine, we might consider the distant ancestor of computer. UK -
.Thermionic emission
Thomas Edison discovered thermionic emission, the building blocks of the entire electronics industry.USA -
Nipkow disk
This device, invented by German Paul Nipkow Gottieb was a step forward in capturing and playback.UK -
Automatic programming
Alan Turing laid the foundations for developing automatic programming, showing that computers could simulate problems and more complex than was believed until now situations. UK -
Transistor,
The transistor John Bardeen, twice Nobel Prize in Physics, invented the transistor, which revolutionized the electronics industry: ushered in the information age and is the basis of virtually all modern devices, from phones and computers missiles. US -
Magnetic core memory
The magnetic core memory engineer Wang An IBM sold the patent for the magnetic core memory, which failed to build four hundred thousand dollars and used the money to start his own company. Its function was similar to RAM: CPU gave space to work, and in it the immediate esults of operations was made were recorded.US. -
COBOL
COBOL Inspired by a language designed for scientific computing Grace Hopper, COBOL was designed to be a universal programming language that could be used on any computer, especially business-oriented.USA -
Sabre operating system
SABRE American Airlines and IBM developed the SABRE operating system,set up to handle calls and flight reservations in real time. It was the most modern of the time, and came to process some 84,000 calls per day.USA, -
John F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy .With his speech in defense of the space race and its intention that the United States came to the moon, Kennedy got big budgets to research in computer science should be devoted.United States, -
Symposium
The databases Essential to the computing environment today, the first time the term "database" was used was at a symposium California -
IBM S / 360
The IBM S / 360 It was the first computer to use firmware and created the architectural concept of family: it was the first range of computers designed to cover applications regardless of size or environment. This was the basis of market porsonales computers.USA -
Doug Engelbart
.The human-machine Interaction Doug Engelbart created the first concepts of mouse, GUI and hipertecto. It was ten years before Xerox PARC developed these ideas.United States -
Intel
.Intel Gordon Moore and Robert Noyce founded the companyl Intel to build integrated circuits. Only a year later, they articulated the famous Moore's law.United States -
Martin Goetz
The first patent for 'software' Martin Goetz becomes the first to patent a computer program, a crucial milestone in the development of the software industry, because without patents hardly have got the capital to develop.USA -
Atari
.The time when Nolan Bushnell founded Atari, and win their second game, Pong, can be considered the launch of the video game industry as such. It also served to attract and interest the younger generations, making the sector one of the most wanted to work since.USA -
Microprocessor 8008 Intel
The microprocessor 8008 Intel released the 8-bit microprocessor 8008, soon replaced by the 8080. It was the first real microprocessor, which led to the revolution of the Pcs.USA -
Number zero
Since the computer is based on combinations of 1 and 0 , the time when the invented zero can be considered key in its history . Although it is unclear whether it was conceived in Egypt , Mesopotamia and India, the latter was where he was treated as just another number first
