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History of the computer in a table
This document lists important people and inventions in the history of computing from ancient times to the 1950s. It includes the Abacus, Napier Bones, the Pascaline adding machine, the Difference Engine, the Analytical Engine, tabulating machines, the Mark I calculator, the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, concepts of stored-program computing, ENIAC, the UNIVAC I, and early transistor computers like the IBM 704 that increased computational speeds. Many of these inventions and innovators were crucial stepping stones toward modern electronic digital computers.
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- 1. Name Inventory Year BabyloniansAbacus John Napier Napier Bones 1617 side ruler 1632 Blaise Pascal Adding Machine (Pascaline) 1642 Gottfried Wilhems Improved Pascal machine & It was called (Step Reckoner) 1674 Joseph Jacquard Mechanical Loom 1801 Charles Babage Difference Engine 1822 Charles Babage Analytical Engine 1833 Herman Hollerith Tabulating machine 1890 Howard Aiken Sequence Controlled Calaculator (Mark I) 1944 Professor John Vincent Atanasoff & Cliff Berry Antanasoff berry Computer Between 1937- 1942 Prof. John Vincent Atamasoff John Von Neumann A concept - to get different tasks performed by using its stored programs without effecting any physical changes to the computer 1942 Moor school of electrical Engineering of the university of Pennsylvania worlds 1st electronic digital computer ENIVAC (Electronical Numerical Integrator and Computer) this can carry abt 5,000 calculations per second & used about 18,000vacuum tubes 1946 Charles Babage"Father of Computer" Ada Augusta Lavelace"First Computer Programmer" Designed programms for the "Analitical Engine" Herman Hollerithwas one how established the IBM (International Business Machines) ABC computer (** not obtained the patent license)
- 2. Remington Rand Institution UNIVAC-I (UniversalAutomatic Calculator -I) It can carry about 10,000 calculations per second 1950 IBM IBM704' It can carry about 100,000 calculations per second 1957 William Shockley , John Bsrdeen & Walter Brarttain In Bell Laboratory they invented smaller Transistors and It can carry about 200,000 - 250,000 calculations per second (second generation computers) 1956