The Four Basics of the Computer Period
The Four Basics of the Computer Period
THE COMPUTER
PERIOD
GROUP 3
KYLE ABUDE NINA FAITH DALOGDOG
KASHIEA PAELMA
● Johannes Gutenberg (Mainz, ● People who held the job title “computer:
Germany) invented the movable one who works with numbers “
metal-type printing press in 1450.
● John Napier
● The development of book indexes
and the widespread use of page In 1617, he employ an ancient numerical
numbers. scheme as the Arabian lattice, lays out a
special version of the multiplication tables
on a set of four-sided wooded rods, allowing
● The first book to ever be printed was
users to multiply and divide numbers and
a Latin language Bible, printed in perform square roots and cube roots.
Mainz, Germany. It is called the NAPIER’S BONES
3. Slide Rules, the Pascaline and
Leibniz's Machine
● The Pascaline
● Slide Rule
- Early 1600s, William Oughtred, an English - Invented by Blaise Pascal, French Mathematician
- One of the first mechanical computing machines
Mathematician, invented the slide rule
Early example of an analog computer. around 1642
- Made out of clock gears and levers and could
● First Mechanical Calculator solve basic mathematical problems like addition
- Wilhelm Shickard invented it. It can work and subtraction
with six digits and carries digits across ● Leibniz’s Machine
columns. It works but never makes it
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz, German mathematician
beyond the prototype stage.
and philosopher invented the Machine called stepped
reckoner that could multiply 5 digit and 12 digit numbers
yielding up to 16 digit numbers
4. Babbage Engines
- Charles Babbage, English Mathematician (Father
of Computer).
- He designed the Analytical Engine and it was this
design that the basic framework of computers of
today are based on. 6. Augusta Ada Byron
- Difference Engine was a working model creates
- The Countess of Lovelace
in 1822 - Also known as Ada Lovelace, the
5. Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom
first programmer
- Design during the 1830's - The programming language Ada
is named in her honor.
- Parts remarkable similar to modern-day
computers
● The store
● The mill
● Punch cards
ELECTROMECHANICAL AGE (1840-
1940)
• The BEGINNINGS OF
TELECOMMUNICATION
VOLTAIC BATTERY [end of 18th century]
RADIO [1896]
MARK I [1939-1944]