History of Computers

He is the Father of Modern Computers.

• Blaise Pascal

• Augusta Ada King

• Charles Babbage

It was invented by Blaise Pascal to help his father who was a tax collector.

• Abacus

• The Pascaline

• The Napier's Bone

It was the earliest counting devices invented by the Chinese in 1368-1644 and helped in counting large numbers and make calculations.

• Abacus

• The Pascaline

• The Napier's Bone

She was an English mathematician and writer who worked on Charles Babbage Analytical Engine.

• Augusta Ada King

• Joseph-Marie Jacquard

• Wilhelm Von Leibniz

Invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and used to add, subtract, multiply and divide. It is also called Stepped Reckoner.

• Difference Engine

• Jacquard's Weaving Loom

• The Leibniz Calculator

It is a punch card system in a silk loom. The loom used punched cards to program patterns that helpd the loom to create wooven fabric.

• Difference Engine

• Jacquard's Weaving Loom

• The Leibniz Calculator

It was designed by Charles Babbage to be used to solve mathematical problems with a capacity of a very large number of digits.

• Difference Engine

• Jacquard's Weaving Loom

• The Leibniz Calculator

It is a computing device made of sticks invented by John Napier. It is used similarly to a multiplication table.

• Analytical Engine

• The Napier's Bone

• Abacus

It is was the successor of Charles Babbage's Difference Engine and was considered the mechanical pioneer of the modern computers.

• Analytical Engine

• The Napier's Bone

• Abacus