r computing' - machine (1936). Afen Turing;dcve<. • lojx-d a mathematrnaL dig : hat computing, machine (1936). Claude Shannon J • tisrif': Boolean ik Igchra'' mJ '-compute? ciwfelg- (ISfefe George St ibtta developed' a relay computer at Belt ' - faitKratorirs (19:i9hJfein* .. At an* sa(l devduped anckc- - ironic Computer (1942), COLOSSUS wax used to decipher German code during World War l| <19431 Ifoward Aiken dc«c loped the Automatic Sequence Contrufird Calcu- . fetor tlSrtl)-John Mauchly and John Prespe? Eckert built ENIAC (1945). The • AsMK-ialain foc Cwnputing Mat hiru-ry (ACMj wax formed (1947) F C. Williams in England devetop«-d a storage.l ufe (19471.. The t ran- - ' stsiur w*» develmwd at Bell !^fn.ratone* 0948). Norbert Wiener introduced ’’cyfernetics"(i94H),’ EDSAC was completed in England (1949). The word automation" was first used tn the automobile industry (19501 The first Unisac I a;
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Joseph Jacqui designed a punched textile loom (1801), Charter Thomas developed a caWj lator (1820) Charles Bafe. bagc designed the ence engine*' (iH&ftf Charles Babbage conceived the "analytical engine” (IMll D. D ormalwdeve,m|sd the firsl key driven calculator (1850). George Book dev< h HH-d *Tto|fean; algebra” (1854). Lord Kelvin constructed a specialFr.nl Baldwin develu|>ed a practical four*process calculator (1875). William Burroughs invented an addingprinting machim(1884). Dorr Felt deve--loprd the "macaroni box* calculator 08871 Herman Hollerith developed a punched card machine (1887)., James Powers ' invented a punched card machine (19071 James Monroe introduced the ’’Monroe calculator’ (1914) Vannevar Hush developed the first differen tialanalyaer(i933) Konrad Ziise designed a computing machine (1936). Alan Turing developed a mathematical digital computing machine (1936). Claude Shannon used Boolean algebra in computer circuits (19.18). George St ibita devrhiMd • relay computer at Bt II Laboratories (19.19) John Atanasuff developed an electronic computer (1942). COLOSSUS was used to decipher Germanctule during World War H (1943) Howard Aiken developed the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (1944) John Mauchly and John Presia-r Eckert built ENIAC (1945) The Association fur Computing Machinery (ACM) was formed
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