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Lesson 1 History of Computer
The  Abacus  was an early aid for mathematical computations. The abacus is often wrongly attributed to China. The oldest surviving abacus was used in 300 B.C. by the Babylonians. The abacus is still in use today in the Far East. (the word " calculus " comes from the Latin word for  pebble ).
Old Abacus
Modern Abacus
In 1617 Scotsman named  John Napier  invented  logarithms , which are a technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition. The magic ingredient is the logarithm of each operand, which was originally obtained from a printed table. But Napier also invented an alternative to tables, where the logarithm values were carved on ivory sticks which are now called  Napier's Bones .
 
Original set of Napier's Bones
Modern set of Napier's Bones
In 1642  Blaise Pascal ,  at age 19, invented the  Pascaline   as an aid for his father who was a tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this gear-driven one-function calculator. Up until the present age when car dashboards went digital, the odometer portion of a car's speedometer used the very same mechanism as the Pascaline
 
 
 
By 1822 the English mathematician  Charles Babbage  was proposing a steam driven calculating machine the size of a room, which he called the  Difference Engine . This machine would be able to compute tables of numbers, such as logarithm tables.
Charles Babbage
Difference Engine
Analytical Engine
Hollerith's invention, known as the  Hollerith desk , consisted of a card reader which sensed the holes in the cards, a gear driven mechanism which could count (using Pascal's mechanism which we still see in car odometers), and a large wall of dial indicators (a car speedometer is a dial indicator) to display the results of the count.
Herman   Hollerith
Hollerith desk
Hollerith  built a company, the Tabulating Machine Company which, after a few buyouts, eventually became International Business Machines, known today as  IBM .
 

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History of computer

  • 1. Lesson 1 History of Computer
  • 2. The Abacus was an early aid for mathematical computations. The abacus is often wrongly attributed to China. The oldest surviving abacus was used in 300 B.C. by the Babylonians. The abacus is still in use today in the Far East. (the word " calculus " comes from the Latin word for pebble ).
  • 5. In 1617 Scotsman named John Napier invented logarithms , which are a technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition. The magic ingredient is the logarithm of each operand, which was originally obtained from a printed table. But Napier also invented an alternative to tables, where the logarithm values were carved on ivory sticks which are now called Napier's Bones .
  • 6.  
  • 7. Original set of Napier's Bones
  • 8. Modern set of Napier's Bones
  • 9. In 1642 Blaise Pascal , at age 19, invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector. Pascal built 50 of this gear-driven one-function calculator. Up until the present age when car dashboards went digital, the odometer portion of a car's speedometer used the very same mechanism as the Pascaline
  • 10.  
  • 11.  
  • 12.  
  • 13. By 1822 the English mathematician Charles Babbage was proposing a steam driven calculating machine the size of a room, which he called the Difference Engine . This machine would be able to compute tables of numbers, such as logarithm tables.
  • 17. Hollerith's invention, known as the Hollerith desk , consisted of a card reader which sensed the holes in the cards, a gear driven mechanism which could count (using Pascal's mechanism which we still see in car odometers), and a large wall of dial indicators (a car speedometer is a dial indicator) to display the results of the count.
  • 18. Herman Hollerith
  • 20. Hollerith built a company, the Tabulating Machine Company which, after a few buyouts, eventually became International Business Machines, known today as IBM .
  • 21.