Computer

The History of Computers

  • Napier’s Bones and Logarithms

    Napier’s Bones and Logarithms

    John Napier invented a table to calculate complex math problems.
  • The Pascaline

    The Pascaline

    A calculator invented by French mathematician Blaise Pascal.
  • Stepped Reckoner

    Stepped Reckoner

    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz created a more developed calculator.
  • Jacquards Loom

    Jacquards Loom

    Created by Joseph-Marie Jacquard, this machine created punched cards that were used to weave patterns.
  • Charles Babbage

    Charles Babbage

    He is known as the "Father of Compputers" for creating the modern model of the computer using the four basic parts.
  • Lady Augusta Ada

    Lady Augusta Ada

    She was the first ever computer programer.
  • Electronic Tabulating Machine

    Electronic Tabulating Machine

    This machince, created by Herman Hollerith, was used to store information.
  • Vacuum Tubes

    Vacuum Tubes

    Lee de Forrest invented vacuum tubes, also called electron tubes, being the sencond generation of computers to increase strength of signals.
  • Harvard's Mark I

    Harvard's Mark I

    This machine was an early protocomputer that wa built during World War II.
  • The Atanasoff-Berry Computer

    The Atanasoff-Berry Computer

    The ABC was the first electronic computer created by Vincent Atanasoff.
  • Turning Machine

    Turning Machine

    Also known as the Universal Machine, Alan Turning created this machine, the theoretical precursor to the electronic digital computer which Atanasoff was soon to invent.
  • The ENIAC

    The ENIAC

    This was the first programmable,electronic,digital computer that was used for general pyrposes.
  • Transiter

    Transiter

    William Shockly created this which was the first generation on computers to control, generate, and amplify electronic signals.
  • Intergrated Circut

    Intergrated Circut

    Created by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, this also called chip was invented to decrease circut size.This was the third generation of computers.
  • Dr. Grace Hopper

    Dr. Grace Hopper

    She broke down the programming using the first computer language to English.
  • Microprocessor

    Microprocessor

    The microprocessor was created by M.E. "Ted" Hoff which was used to show the functions of the central processing system of a digital computer.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    The "web" is "the leading information retrieval on the Internet" and was created by Tim Berners-Lee
  • The Reasearh

    The Reasearh

    I, Jada Woodard, created this timeline using Britannica, Britannica Image Quest, and a Power Point presentation by Bernard John Poole, MSIS Associate Professor of Education and Instructional Technology.