A Brief History of Computing

1642:

Blaise Pascal builds the first mechanical adding machine

1774:

Phillip Matthaus Hahn buils the first succesful portable calculator.

1786:

The idea of the Difference Engine, a computer able to compute polynomial functions, is conceived.

1822:

Difference Engine is designed by Charles Babbage

1833:

The first computer, the Analyticial Engine, is concieved.

1837:

Charles Babbage designs the first programmable computer, The Analytical Engine.

1842-1843:

Ada Lovelace becomes the first computer programmer by programming The Analyticial Engine

1873:

First typewriter invented

1906:

Lee De Forest invents the vacuum tube

1938:

Germanys Konrad Zuse creates the Z1, one of the first binary digital computers and a machine that could be controlled through a punch tape.

1939:

Hewlett-Packard Company is established. It would eventually grow to be the largest technology company.

1939:

Iowa State Colleges John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry complete the binary-based ABC (Atanasoft-Berry Computer), the first machine to calculate using vacuum tubes

1940:

First complex calculator George Stibitz completes the Complex Number Calculator capable of being accessed from limted remote locations

1946:

ENIAC(Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), one of the first completely electronic, digital, program controleld computers was announced.

1947:

William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain at Bell Laboratories invent the transistor.

1948:

SSEM(Small-Scale Experimental Machine) vbecomes the first computer to store all tis programs and data in RAM

1951:

The first general purpose computer, UNIVAC was built

1951:

J Lyons becomes the first company to run a business application on an electronic computer

1951:

EDVAC becomes the first computer to use magnetic tape

1958:

Jack Killby invents the integrated circuit

1962:

The first computer game, Spacewar!, is written

1965:

The first supercomputer, the Control Data CDC 6600, was developed

1967:

David Noble invents the floppy disk

1972:

ARPANET, the first international connections newtork is established. It known for being the foundation of the internet

1973:

Ethernet is developed

1975:

Bill Gates implements BASIC, leadign to the creation of the pfirst persinal computer

1977:

The Apple II is introduced.

1979:

The compact disc is invented

1980:

Very Large Scale Integration was developed

1989:

World Wibe Web is invented