HISTORY OF COMPUTERS numbers on the rods.

These became referred to as

Napier’s Bones.
Ancient Times

Early Man relied on

counting on his HISTORY OF THE PHILIPPINES
fingers and toes
(which by the way,
is the basis for our
base 10 numbering
system). Later
notched sticks and knotted cords were used for
counting.

Roman Empire

The Romans
developed the
abacus, the first
"machine" for
calculations. It
was in front of
the Chinese
abacus, but
people don't know if it is an ancestor of the abacus.
The low groove counter is 1x10n and the high groove
counter is 5x10n.

Industrial Age – 1600

Philippines - 1600

By the 1500s, three expeditions

John Napier, a Scottish nobleman (led by Magellan, Drake and
and politician devoted much of his Thomas Cavendish) had already
leisure to the study of mathematics. orbited the planet.
He was especially curious about
devising ways to assist The Dutch wanted to try the
computations. His greatest
equivalent, so in 1598 they
formed a fleet of two ships.
contribution was the invention of
One was to establish a presence in the (Indonesia)
logarithms. He inscribed logarithmic measurements
Maluku Islands, and the other was to open trade with
on a group of 10 wooden
China and other Southeast Asian countries.
rods and thus was ready
to do multiplication and
division by matching up
 consisted of a series of gears with 10 teeth each,
representing the numbers 0 to 9

1621 - The Sliderule

Napier invented logarithms,

Edmund Gunter invented the
logarithmic scales (lines
The Bankaw revolt (1621–1622)
etched on metal or wood), but
it had been William Oughtred, Bankaw Revolt was a
in England who invented the spiritual uprising against
sliderule. Using the concept of Spanish colonial rule led
Napier`s bones, he inscribed by Bankaw or Bancao,
logarithms on strips of wood and invented the Limasawa, Carigara,
calculating "machine" which was spent until the mid- Abuyog and Sogod's
1970s when the primary hand-held calculators and datu. When he arrived in
microcomputers appeared. the Philippines in 1564 and converted to Christianity,
he warmly welcomed Miguel Lopez de Legaspi. He
welcomed Deregaspi and his men and received a
letter of appreciation from King Philip II of Spain. He
also received a gift from the king in honor of his
grandfather's hospitality to Magellan. He was one of
the first Catholic converts under de Legazpi, but
about 50 years later he abandoned his faith and
loyalty to the Spaniards. Together with Babayan
named Pagari and his children, he built a temple for
Diwata and urged people from six cities to participate
in the rebellion. Pagari is believed to have used some
magic to attract believers, believing that they could
1642 - Blaise Pascal turn the Spaniards into clay by throwing a mass of
Earth at them. Rev. Melchor de Vera visited Cebu to
Blaise Pascal, a French
report on the uprising.
mathematical genius, at
the age of 19 invented a
machine, which he called
Ladia Revolt (1643)
the Pascaline that could do
addition and subtraction to Pedro Ladia was a
help his father, who was Moro Bornean and a
also a mathematician. self-claimed descendant
Pascal`s machine of Lakandula who came
to Malolos in 1643. At
that time, his land was
confiscated by the
Spanish and he thought that it was about time that
they stage an uprising and put himself as King of the
Tagalogs. This was despite the fact that a parish
priest tried to convince him not to pursue his plans.
Upon his capture, he was brought to Manila where he
was executed.

1673 - Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz

He invented a calculating
machine known as
Leibniz`s Wheel or the Step
Reckoner. Leibniz also
invented something
essential to modern
computers — binary
arithmetic.

1725 - The Bouchon Loom

Bouchon observed the paper rolls with punched holes

that his father made to program his player organs and
adapted the idea as a way of "programming" a loom.
The paper passed over a section of the loom and
where the holes appeared certain threads were lifted.
As a result, the pattern could be woven repeatedly.

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