This document discusses the history and components of computers from 1700-1800. It describes the basic components of input, output, memory, and processor. For history, it mentions Gabriel Fahrenheit proposing the Fahrenheit scale in 1724. The first telegraph was built in 1774 and Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity in 1780. In the 1800s, Thomas de Colmar created the first commercially successful calculating machine in 1820. Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1876 and the microphone was invented in 1877.