Tech famouspeople

Abacus: used until calculators available! Used by Babylonians! Try an online abacus – need to have Java installed

Blaise Pascal ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],1642

Joseph Jacquard ,[object Object],[object Object],1801 made 1 st loom

Charles Babbage ,[object Object]

Difference Engine ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Analytical Engine ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object]

Ada Byron: Countess of Lovelace ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Became known as 1 st Programmer!

But no one could understand a machine that could do anything… The idea was lost…

Babbage is: The Father of Computers Analytical Engine is blueprint for today’s computer

Herman Hollerith ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],1880s

ABC Computer ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],“ inventor of 1 st electronic computer!”

ABC Computer Use electricity, vacuum tubes, binary numbers and capacitors.

Konrad Zuse’s Z1 ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],WWII 1941

British Collosus ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],1943-44

Mark I ,[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],Howard Aiken Grace Hopper 1944

[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],[object Object],ENIAC Mauchley and Eckert 1946

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