3000 BC
The abacus was invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C. It used to perform basic arithmetic operations
1614
Inventor : John Napier
Allowed the operator to multiply, divide and calculate square and cube roots by moving the rods around and placing them in specially constructed boards
1622
Inventor : William Oughtred
Used primarily for multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, Trigonometry
1642
Inventor : Blaise Pascal
Pascaline is a desktop mechanical adding machine
1672
Inventor : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
The machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically
1820
Inventor : Thomas de Colmar
It is the first digital mechanical calculator.
1830
Inventor : Charles Babbage
Designed to store one thousand 50 digit number for calculations and decisions.
1843
Inventor : Per Georg Scheutz
The first printing calculator.
1881
Inventor : Joseph-Marie Jacquard
A card punch with holes in certain places that a computer can read data codes from combination of holes.
1890
Inventor : Herman Hollerith
To assist in summarizing information and accounting.
1943
Inventor : Howard H. Aiken
The first electro-mechanical computer.
1936 - 1938
Creator : Konerad Zus
The first programmable computer.
1939 - 1942
Inventor : Professor John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
It was the first electronic digital computing device.
1946
Developer : John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauch
It was the first electronic general purpose computer.
1951
Designer : J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly
The first commercial Computer which got large amount of public attention
1981
IBM's first personal computer. The computer uses the MS-DOS operating system made by Microsoft
1977
Inventor : Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack
It is one of the first successful home computers and the first computer commercially sold by Apple
1990s
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