French inventor Joseph Marie Jacquard creates a loom that uses wooden punch cards to automate the design of woven fabrics.
His invention was called: The Jacquard’s Loom.
1822
English mathematician Charles Babbage invents a calculating machine capable of computing tables of numbers
He also designed the Difference Engine, designed to compute logarithms and sine and cosine functions.
He only built a small portion of it during his lifetime.
He also designed the Analytical Engine.
It was capable of performing basic arithmetic, data storage and conditional branching.
It also uses punch cards similar to the Jacquard loom.
It was never constructed but the design served as groundwork for modern computers.
1890
Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 U.S census.
He would eventually establish a company that would become the IBM
Early 20th Century (1900-1949)
1936
Alan Turing develops his idea of a universal machine called the Turing machine.
This computer has the ability to compute anything that is computable.
This concept is where modern computers is based out of.
1937
J.V Atanasoff, a physics and mathematics professor at Iowa State University, attempts to build the first computer without cams, belts, gears or shafts.
1939
Bill Hewlett and David Packard founded Hewlett-Packard in a garage at Palo Alto, California
George Stibitz designed for Bell Telephone Laboratories the Complex Number Calculator
1941
J.V Atanasoff with his student Clifford Berry designs a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously.
This was also the first computer to house data in its memory
German engineer Konrad Zuse creates the Z3 Computer, which uses 2,300 relays, performs floating-point binary arithmetic, and had a 22-bit word length.
Alan Turing and Harold Keen built the British Bombe.
It decrypted the ENIGMA used in Nazi military communications during the Second World War.
1943
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert built the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator