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[1] They also invented an automatic flute player which appears to have been the first programmable machine. [2] c. 1000 Abū Rayhān al-Bīrūnī invented the Planisphere, an analog computer. [3] He also invented the first mechanical lunisolar calendar which employed a gear train and eight gear-wheels. [4]
The Computer History in time and space, Graphing Project, an attempt to build a graphical image of computer history, in particular operating systems. The Computer Revolution/Timeline at Wikibooks "File:Timeline.pdf - Engineering and Technology History Wiki" (PDF). ethw.org. 2012. Archived (PDF) from the original on 2017-10-31
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer, announced to the public in 1946. It was Turing-complete, [ 45 ] digital, and capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.
The oldest known recordings of computer generated music were played by the Ferranti Mark 1 computer. The Mark 1 is a commercial version of the Manchester Mark 1 machine from the University of Manchester. The music program was written by Christopher Strachey. 1951: US EDVAC (electronic discrete variable computer). The first computer to use ...
The first mobile television camera (180 lines, all-electronic) is used for live television broadcasts of the Olympic Games. Also in the UK are first regular television broadcasts – now for the perfect electronic EMI system, which soon replaced the mechanical part Baird system – broadcast.
1957: The first personal computer used by one person and controlled by a keyboard, the IBM 610, is invented by IBM. 1957: The first artificial satellite , Sputnik 1 , is launched. 1958 – 1959: The integrated circuit is independently invented by Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce .
The LEO I computer (Lyons Electronic Office) became operational in April 1951 [128] and ran the world's first regular routine office computer job. On 17 November 1951, the J. Lyons company began weekly operation of a bakery valuations job on the LEO – the first business application to go live on a stored-program computer.
[23] [24] The computers were programmed with a language called "Basic" (no relation to the BASIC programming language developed at Dartmouth at about the same time). [25] The software also had an interpreter which was made up of a series of routines and an executive (like a modern-day operating system ), which specified which programs to run ...