Basic Computing Periods Timeline

The Pre-Mechanical Age 3000 BC - 1450 AD

First recorded
signs or simple figures First true written language; adding machine
carved in rock by Symbols to represent first real information system A scroll was a roll The Greeks began to invented in
scouring, engraving, ideas and concept Developed by the ancient Religious leaders in constructed of material that fold sheets of papyrus Babylonia and
chiseling, carving or any each character stands Sumerians of Mesopotamia Mesopotamia kept the ranged from papyrus to vertically into leaves popularized in
similar method for a specific meaning c. 3500-3000 BCE earliest "books" parchment and bind them together China
PETROGLYTHS IDEOGRAPHS CUNEIFORM MESOPOTAMIA EGYPTIANS GREEKS ABACUS

I. WRITING AND ALPHABETS III. BOOKS AND LIBRARIES V. FIRST CALCULATOR

3000 B.C. 600 B.C.

2600 B.C. 100-875 A.D.

II. PAPER AND PENS IV. FIRST NUMBERING
SYSTEM
SUMERIAN EGYPTIANS CHINESE EGYPTIANS HINDUS
Writing on clay tablets; Writing material made Paper is a thin material A base unit to system of 9 digit numbering,
scribes would take a from the papyrus plant made by pressing moist hieroglyphs for concept of zero was
stylus and press the and reed which grows in fibers and drying them numerals; separate developed
lines and symbols into the marshy areas of Nile into flexible sheets symbols for unit, tens,
soft, moist clay River hundreds, thousand and
a writing material made from the papyrus plant Paper is a thin material made by pressing such.
Around 875 A.D., the
while a Reed which grows in the marshy areas of moist fibers and drying them into
concept of zero was
around the Nile river. Papyrus was used as a flexible sheets. It is most commonly made
developed.
writing material as early as 3,000 BC in ancient from cellulose pulp derived from wood,
Egypt, and continued to be used to some extent rags or grasses. 2,400 B.C
until around 1100 AD
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The Mechanical Age 1450-1840 AD

First mechanical calculator Enabled looms to produce fabrics

Invented by Johann Guttenberg
Printing presses push paper
against inked movable type
materials to transfer text and
images from the type onto the
paper.
MOVABLE METAL TYPE
PRINTING PRESS
1450
Invented by Wilhelm Shickard
user entered data on a series of
wheels and an abacus like
arrangement; could perform
addition and multiplication, but
not subtraction or division.
MECHANICAL
CALCULATOR
1623
aka Arithmetic Machine
First calculator or adding
machine to be produced in any
quantity and actually used
Built by Blaise Pascal
PASCALINE
1642
having intricate woven patterns
such as tapestry, brocade, and
damask, and it has also been
adapted to the production of
patterned knitted fabrics
Invented by Joseph Marie-
Jacquard
AUTOMATIC LOOM
1801
Type of automatic mechanical
calculators that are designed or
developed to calculate or tabulate
the polynomial function
Can calculate in a way to tabulate
the polynomial functions by using
the small sets of coefficients.
DIFFERENCE ENGINE
1821

1550 1632 1672 1820 1832

NAPIER'S BONE
Manually-operated calculating
device for the calculation of
products and quotients of
number
Created by John Napier
SLIDE RULE
Invented by William Oughtred
Consists of graduated scales
capable of relative movement,
by means of which simple
calculations may be carried out
mechanically
STEPPED RECKONER
Introduced by Goufried Leibniz
Enable a single gear to
represent any digit from 0 to 9
in just one revolution. This
stepped-drum approach
dominated calculator design for
the next two centuries.
ARITHMOMETER
First commercially successful
calculating machine - capable
of performing addition,
subtraction, multiplication and
division
Invented by Charles Xavier
Thomas de Colmar
ANALYTICAL ENGINE
A fully controlled general-
purpose computer which
includes automatic mechanical
digital computer into it.
Any of the calculation with the
help of punch card
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The Electromechanical Age 1840-1940

is a piece of stiff paper that contains digital

Invented by Alessandro
Volta
First electromechanical cell
Invented by Pehr and Advard
Scheutz
Capable of processing fifteen-
digit number, printing out results
and rounding off to eight digits
First successful bi-directional
transmission of clear speech
by Bell and Watsons
First efficient four-function
calculator
Invented by Otto Shweigher,
a Swiss engineer
information represented by the presence or
absence of holes in predefined positions.
used as the primary medium for input of
both computer programs and data

VOLTAIC BATTERY TABULATING MACHINE TELEPHONE THE MILLION CALCULATOR IBM PUNCHED CARDS
1800 1853 1876 1893 1911

1832 1874 1885 1906

TELEGRAPH CAMPTOMETER VACUUM TUBE
RADIO
Invented by Samuel F.J. Italian inventor Guglielmo Type of mechanical adding Developed by Lee De Forest
Morse Marconi first developed the idea machine. Devices used to amplify,
First magnetic telegraph of a radio, or wireless telegraph. First adding device to be switch, modify, create an
driven solely by the action of electrical by controlling the
pressing keys movement f electrons in low-
pressure space.
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The Electronic Age 1940-Present

Completed by John
Built by Konrad Zuse
Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
first programmable
first all electronic computer
computer
ATANASOFF-BERRY
Z3 COMPUTER
1941 1942

1942
MARK 1

Developed by Howard Aiken

first stored program Submitted by:
Terrence Ivan Sarique
Angela Janelle Ibarra
Desily Mae Mariano
Abish Julienne Pecundo

Submitted to:
Prof. Anna Marie See