Early Computers

Charles Babbage: Analytical Engine 1837

First Fully-automatic Calculating Machine

A small section of the type of mechanism

employed in Babbage's Difference Engine.

(IEEE 2002 in Kopplin 2002)

Konrad Zuse The Z1, was built between 1936 and 1938 in his parents sitting room

(Kopplin 2002)

ENIAC (1946) was built and used for military purposes by the US Army during the Second World War

ENIAC: 167 square meters of floor space

Originally, it was hoped that computers would replace the need for women in the workplace. The women ended up

running them!

Women were also the programmers

UNIVAC

ILLIAC II - University of Illinois

Image ReferencesGoldstine, Herman H. (1972) ENIAC. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIAC Accessed 25 April 2012

Science Museum Group.(2012) Babbage's Analytical Engine.http://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_data_processing/1878-3.aspx Accessed 25 April 2012