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Early Computers. Charles Babbage: Analytical Engine 1837.

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1 Early Computers

2 Charles Babbage: Analytical Engine 1837

3 First Fully-automatic Calculating Machine

4 A small section of the type of mechanism employed in Babbage's Difference Engine. (IEEE 2002 in Kopplin 2002)

5 Konrad Zuse The Z1, was built between 1936 and 1938 in his parents sitting room (Kopplin 2002)

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

7 ENIAC: 167 square meters of floor space

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

12 Women were also the programmers

13 UNIVAC

14 ILLIAC II - University of Illinois

15 Image References Goldstine, Herman H. (1972) ENIAC. Http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ENIACHttp://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_dat a_processing/1878-3.aspxhttp://www.sciencemuseum.org.uk/objects/computing_and_dat a_processing/1878-3.aspx Accessed 25 April 2012


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