History of Computing

The computer or computer, not a figment of anyone in particular, but the result of evolutionary ideas
and achievements of many people involved in areas such as electronics, mechanics, semiconductor
materials, logic, algebra and programming.
Age Media
The Persian mathematician and engineer Musa al-Juarismi (780-850), invented the algorithm, ie
solving algebra problemsmethodically and numeracy through a well-defined list, ordered and finite
operations to find the solution to problem posed.
XVII Century
1617: Just before dying, the Scottish mathematician John Napier (1550-1617), famous for his
invention of logarithms, developed a system for manipulating arithmetic bars, which he called
"bones" as they were built with material bone or ivory, and in which wereembodied the digits. Given
its nature, the system is called "Napier's bones" (Abacus neperiano). Napier's bones had a strong
influence on the development of the slide rule (five years later) and subsequent calculating
machines, which received logarithms.
1623: The first mechanical calculator was designed by Wilhelm Schickard in Germany. Called
"calculating clock", the machine joined Napier'slogarithms, he rolled in a shelter large cylinders. It
commissioned a calculator watch for Johannes Kepler, the famous mathematician, but was
destroyed by fire before it was finished.