Timeline

Chronology of the History of Computing


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IBM 360 system

Industrial era starts from 1947
This era the computer revolution will go in full gear.
Computers will be produced by the millions each year and becoming smaller than a human finger nail.

1886 - 1946

1886 1900 1927 1938 1940 1944

Difference engine Babbage

pascaline

Pre Industrial era starts from 1880
In this era the first computing machines are constructed, the first fully functional mechanical calculators are put on the market.
The concept of computers is born but are fully mechanical

Antiquity

1620 - 1885

1620 1672 1773 1830 1846

schikard calculator
Schickard calculator

Antiquity starts from 1600 AD
The first aids to calculate are being constructed, no intricate machinery that resembles a computer. But logarithm and binary logic is developed

Pre Historic Era

300.000BC - 1619AD

300BC 469 1310

cunei writing on clay tablet

Clay tablet engraved with with cuneiform

Pre Historic Era starts at 300.000 BC
The prehistory in computing is characterized by simple methods of numbering, the invention of numerical systems and the birth of mathematics and calculus.
It will take hundreds of years before the concept of the 0 is introduced in the entire world

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Last Updated on March 15, 2013

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