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Wednesday, 1 May 2013

Significant Events In Computer History

 In 1617 John Napier invented “Napier’s Bones” which has been using Ivory rods for calculating.
 In 1822 Charles Babbage introduced the “Difference engine”(Analytical engine) which is known as the Modern form of computers. And by this invention Charles Babbage was famous as the “father of computers”.
 In 1906 The vacuum tube was introduced by Lee de forest.
 In 1936 Alan turning publishesd “On computable Numbers”.
 In 1937 Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC) was invented by John V.Atanasoff.
 In 1946 EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) was introduced
 In 1946 also the ENIAC was introduced(electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer)
 In 1949 EDSAC was created by Maurice Wilkes. And it was the first practical stored program computer
 In 1950 the UNIVAC- 1101 was built(it also known as ERA 1101). It was the first commercial computer in the history
 In 1952 IBM launched the “701”