2. HOOGHLY ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY COLLEGE
PAPER NAME COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE (EC502)
PROJECT TITLE Evolution of Computers
NAME Avishek Bhattacharjee
DEPARTMENT Electronics & Communication Engineering
SEMESTER 5th
CLASS ROLL 02
UNIVERSITY ROLL 17600320001
YEAR 3rd
BATCH 2020-24
3. CONTENTS
NAPIER’S BONES and PASCALINE
DIFFERENCE ENGINE and ANALYTICAL ENGINE
TIDE PREDICTOR and ARTHMOMETER
EARLY 1900s ERA
FACTS CHECK
FIRST GENERATION COMPUTER
SECOND GENERATION COMPUTER
THIRD GENERATION COMPUTER
EVOLUTION WITH COLLABORATION
FOURTH GENERATION COMPUTER
FIFTH GENERATION COMPUTER
REFERENCES
5. Napier’s bones is a manually
operated calculating device,
invented by John Napier of
Marchiston for calculation
products and quotation numbers
on 1600S.
NAPIER’S BONES
Source: www.historycomputer.uk
PASCALINE
Pascaline, also called Arithmetic
Machine, is the first calculator
which can add or subtract two
numbers directly in decimal. The
Pascaline was designed and built
by the French mathematician-
philosopher Blaise Pascal between
1642 and 1644.
Source: www.wikipedia.org/napiersbones
NAPIER’S
BONES
PASCALINE
6. DIFFERENCE ENGINE
(1812/1813)
Charles Babbage started to develop
this machine.
It was a mechanical calculator.
Used polynomial computations.
Source: www.Britannica.com/differenceengine
ANALYTICAL ENGINE
(1837)
Proposed By Ada Lovelace.
General Purposed Mechanical
Calculator.
Had arithmetic and logic unit
and memory.
Could handle conditional
branching and loop.
Difference
Engine
Analytical
Engine
Charles Babbage
19. REFERENCES
1. The Universal Computer by Martin Davis.
2. Alan Turing by Andrew Hodges.
3. Colossus: The Secret of Bletchley Park's Codebreaking Computers by
Jack Copeland.
4. When Computers Were Human by David Alan Grier.
5. Core Memory by John Alderman (author) and Mark Richards
(photographer)
6. Computer evolution of buildable objects (P Funes, J Pollack -
Evolutionary design by computers, 1999 - books.google.com)
7. Computer Vision by T Huang
8. Sciencemuseum.org
9. Wikipedia.org