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Timeline Computers history

Hugo Morcillo Hernández - 4634

Created on September 18, 2024

This short timeline explains the history of computers in a nutshell, including since prehistory times untill today.

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a simple guide into computers creation

COMPUTERS HISTORY

1789 - TODAY

Prehistory

Contemporary age

300 BC - 476 AD

Reminder

Middle ages

Mod ern age

1492 - 1789

476 - 1492

FIRST EVER COMPUTER

With the industrial revolution the technology was advancing by leaps and bounds, and more complex calculus machines were needed. For this reason, Charles Babbage in 1822 conceived the difference engine machine idea, leading us to the basis of modern computers. It had this aspect (Picture 1) Finally, Konrad Zuse built the first ever programmable machines Z1, Z2, Z3, and Z4, coming with WWII, leading to the first ever computer in 1944-> The Mark I (Picture 2)

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Almost computers

Here's how Leibniz's calculator works

In this period we highlight;

  • Oughtred's slide rule (1621
  • Pascal's pascaline (1642)
  • Leibniz's calculator (1694)

Real change starts

Advances and it's big development

Despite not having a lot of real and changes, the middle ages arrived to change things quickly, with inventions like gunpowder and compass. However, the invention we are looking for the computer advance is the 1440's Gutenberg's model printing. This was innovative and had a very complex mechanism for the time.

Computers actually

Just a curious reminder

Here's how computers look today

The abacus

Salamis tablet

The first calculation tool

Also known as the first abacus model, this is the predecessor of the abacus. Here's how it looked:

This instrument was the first ever invented tool with the purpose of calculating. It was usually made of wood. stone, or metal, with grooves and little stones in them, used to count.

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