{"id":437,"date":"2010-04-28T10:18:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T17:18:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2010-08-09T11:56:19","modified_gmt":"2010-08-09T18:56:19","slug":"computer-history-and-facts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/437\/misc-projects\/history-and-facts-project\/computer-history-and-facts\/","title":{"rendered":"Computers \u2013 Mechanical Computer History & Facts | Electronic Computer History & Facts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Description:<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span> The original definition of Computer was any person who performed computations or was required to compute data as a regular part of their job function.\u00a0 Throughout history several man-made devices, such as the\u00a0Abacus and Slide Rule,\u00a0have been built to aid\u00a0people in calculating data.\u00a0 This historical timeline\u00a0covers the\u00a0origins of the first mechanical and electronic computers to the beginnings of commercially available computers sold to the public.\u00a0 This historical computer timeline will be continued to 2010 in the near future.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
1786 <\/strong><\/span>\u2013 First computer concept, called the Difference Engine, was conceived on paper by Johann Helfrich von M\u00fcller.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1833<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First attempt at building the Difference Engine, called the Difference Engine No. 1, by Charles Babbage. The first automatic computing machine was not successfully completed. Charles Babbage also conceived of a general purpose programmable computing machine called the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine features many essential principles found in the modern digital computer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1843<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First working Difference Engine was built by Georg Scheutz and Edvard Scheutz based on Babbage\u2019s work.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1941<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First electromechanical computer was the Z3 built by Konrad Zuse.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1942<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First fully electronic digital computing device was the Atanasoff\u2013Berry Computer (ABC), but it was not programmable.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First programmable, digital, electronic, computing device was the Colussus designed by Tommy Flowers and was used for codebreaking. The Colussus was a program-controlled computer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1943 -1945<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 The first high-level programming language to be designed for a computer was called Plankalk\u00fcl, created by Konrad Zuse.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1946<\/strong><\/span> \u2013 First general-purpose programmable electronic computer was the ENIAC. The ENIAC was a program-controlled computer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1949<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First practical stored-program electronic computer was the EDSAC.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1950<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First personal computer built was called the Simon. The plans were contained in articles written by Edmund C. Berkeley.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1951<\/span> <\/strong>\u2013 First commercially available general-purpose computer was the Ferranti Mark 1, just one month prior to the UNIVAC I.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Televisions<\/span><\/a> – History and facts about the invention of the television. A historical timeline of the first electromechanical television to 3D TV.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Computers<\/span><\/a> – History and facts about the invention of the computer. A historical timeline of the first mechanical and electronic computers to modern day computers.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Music<\/span><\/a> – History and facts\u00a0about the first mechanical sound recording devices to\u00a0the iPod Touch.\u00a0 A historical timeline of the first recording and sound playing devices to the modern day iPod line of MP3 and MP4 video players.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Description:\u00a0 The original definition of Computer was any person who performed computations or was required to compute data as a regular part of their job function.\u00a0 Throughout history several man-made devices, such as the\u00a0Abacus and Slide Rule,\u00a0have been built to aid\u00a0people in calculating data.\u00a0 This historical timeline\u00a0covers the\u00a0origins of the first mechanical and electronic computers […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":167,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[231],"tags":[189,188],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history-and-facts-project","tag-electronic-computer-history-and-facts","tag-mechanical-computer-history-and-facts"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/167"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ait-pro.com\/aitpro-blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}