This document summarizes important inventions and developments from the 14th century to the 19th century that helped enable the computer age. Some key inventions and developments mentioned include Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press in 1450, Blaise Pascal inventing the mechanical calculator called the Pascaline in 1642, Charles Babbage designing the analytical engine in 1837, the development of electromechanics in the 18th-19th centuries including Alessandro Volta inventing the battery, Samuel Morse inventing the telegraph in 1832, and Alexander Graham Bell inventing the telephone in 1876. The use of punched cards to store and process data is also discussed.