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The History of Computers.
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24 Jan 2022
https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html Google.com
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1801: Joseph Marie Jacquard,
1821: Charles Babbage
1848: Ada Lovelace
1853: Swedish inventor Per Georg Scheutz
1890: Herman Hollerith
1931:
1936: Alan Turing
1937: John Vincent Atanasoff
1939: David Packard and Bill Hewlett
1941: German inventor and engineer Konrad Zuse
1941:
1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry
1945: .
1947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories
1949:
1953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL, which stands for COmmon, Business-Oriented Language according to the National Museum of American History. Hopper is later dubbed the "First Lady of Software" in her posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom citation. Thomas Johnson Watson Jr., son of IBM CEO Thomas Johnson Watson Sr., conceives the IBM 701 EDPM to help the United Nations keep tabs on Korea during the war.
1958: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. Kilby is later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work.
1958: Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce unveil the integrated circuit, known as the computer chip. Kilby is later awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics for his work. (copy)
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