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history of computers
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Tsukikage Shinu
⟶ Updated 24 Jan 2018 ⟶
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(In France) Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a loom that used punched wooden cards to weave fabric designs.
English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. But it was a FAILURE.
Herman Hollerith designed a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census. He accomplished the task in just three years, saving the government $5 million. He established the company that eventually became IBM.
Alan Turing presented the notion of a universal machine, later known as the Turing machine, capable of computing anything that was computable.
J.V. Atanasoff attempts to build the first computer without gears, cams, belts, or shafts.
Hewlett-Packard is founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett in a Palo Alto, California, garage.
Atanasoff and graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously.
William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor. No need for a vacuum.
Grace Hopper develops the first computer language known as COBOL.
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip.
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Two University of Pennsylvania professors build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator. (Fills a 20' by 40' room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.)