THE COMPUTER ILC RARES, TYUKODI ALEX, SERBAN ROMICA

• Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated

the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the “father of the
computer”, he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in
the early 19th century.
The history of computers began
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primitive designs in the early
19th century
And went on to change the world
during
the 20th century.
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• 1937: John Vincent Atanasoff, a
professor of physics and
mathematics at Iowa State
University, submits a grant proposal
to build the first electric-only
computer, without using gears,
cams, belts or shafts.
• 1939: David Packard and Bill
Hewlett found the Hewlett Packard
Company in Palo Alto, California.
The pair decide the name of their
new company by the toss of a coin,
and Hewlett-Packard’s first
headquarters are in Packard’s
garage, according to MIT.
• 1941: Atanasoff and his
graduate student, Clifford
Berry, design the first
digital electronic computer
in the U.S., called the
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
(ABC). This marks the first
time a computer is able to
store information on its
main memory, and is
capable of performing
one operation every 15
seconds, according to the
book
• The history of computers goes
back over 200 years. At first
theorized by mathematicians
and entrepreneurs, during the
19th century mechanical
calculating machines were
designed and built to solve the
increasingly complex number-
crunching challenges. The
advancement of technology
enabled ever more-complex
computers by the early 20th
century, and computers
became larger and more
powerful
• Today, computers are almost
unrecognizable from designs of
the 19th century, such as Charles
Babbage’s Analytical Engine —
or even from the huge computers
of the 20th century that occupied
whole rooms, such as the
Electronic Numerical Integrator
and Calculator.
• This is how one of the modern
day computers look’s like very
diferent than the first models
right?