History & Pioneers

With computers being used from telephone switches in the early 1900s, engineers discovered so much more that could be implemented so computers were established thank you pioneers 

                                              Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752 - 1834)

Joseph Marie Jacquard was a French silk weaver and inventor. In 1804, he invented the Jacquard Loom, a weaving device noted for simplifying the manufacturing of textiles. The loom could be programmed to weave specific patterns using a chain of punched cards. Using different cards allowed the woven patterns to change without modifying the mechanics of the loom. The Jacquard Loom influenced modern programmable devices, such as the IBM digital compiler.

Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871)

Charles Babbage was a British mathematician, philosopher, mechanical engineer, and inventor who is regarded as the "father of the computer". Babbage invented the first automatic mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, which was used to calculate polynomial functions. The Analytical Engine was the Difference Engine's successor, intended as a programmable computing engine. To support general purpose computing the following components were added: Arithmetic logic unit (ALU): Used to perform arithmetic. Called a "mill". Conditional logic: Used to perform conditional branching and loops. Memory: The machine's memory could hold over 1,000 numbers containing 40 decimal digits. Punched card reader: Used to input programs and data via punched cards. Babbage owned a woven portrait card of Jacquard (shown in the above image), which inspired Babbage to use punched cards for the Analytical Engine

Ada Lovelace (1815 - 1852)

Ada Lovelace, was a British mathematician who is often referred to as the first computer programmer. Augusta Ada King-Noel, Countess of Lovelace, was commissioned to translate a document about Babbage's Analytical Engine from French to English. She augmented the document with her own notes (named A - G), tripling the size of the original document. Note G detailed the steps to compute the Bernoulli numbers and is considered to be the first computer program. Lovelace was also one of the first to predict the use of Babbage's engines beyond numerical calculations, and to instead have far reaching applications in general computing.