Timeline
History Of Computer

Abacus

3000 BC

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The abacus was invented in Babylonia in 2400 B.C. It used to perform basic arithmetic operations

Napier Bones

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

Slide Rule

1622

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Inventor : William Oughtred

Used primarily for multiplication, division, roots, logarithms, Trigonometry

Pascaline

1642

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Inventor : Blaise Pascal

Pascaline is a desktop mechanical adding machine

Stepped Reckoner

1672

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Inventor : Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz

The machine that can add, subtract, multiply and divide automatically

Arithmometer

1820

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Inventor : Thomas de Colmar

It is the first digital mechanical calculator.

Babbage Analytical Engine

1830

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Inventor : Charles Babbage

Designed to store one thousand 50 digit number for calculations and decisions.

Scheutzian Calculation Engine

1843

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Inventor : Per Georg Scheutz

The first printing calculator.

Punch cards

1881

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Inventor : Joseph-Marie Jacquard

A card punch with holes in certain places that a computer can read data codes from combination of holes.

Tabulating Machine

1890

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Inventor : Herman Hollerith

To assist in summarizing information and accounting.

Havard Mark 1

1943

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Inventor : Howard H. Aiken

The first electro-mechanical computer.

Z1

1936 - 1938

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Creator : Konerad Zus

The first programmable computer.

Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)

1939 - 1942

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Inventor : Professor John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry

It was the first electronic digital computing device.

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

1946

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Developer : John Presper Eckert and John W. Mauch

It was the first electronic general purpose computer.

Universal Automatic Computer 1 (UNIVAC)

1951

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Designer : J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly

The first commercial Computer which got large amount of public attention

Acorn

1981

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IBM's first personal computer. The computer uses the MS-DOS operating system made by Microsoft

Apple II

1977

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Inventor : Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniack

It is one of the first successful home computers and the first computer commercially sold by Apple

Multimedia Desktop Computer

1990s

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