Project 5: Creating a 3 Dimensional Timeline

Timeline Topics

1. Mechanical calculators developed in the 1600's
   • Blaise Pascal : Pascaline Calculator (1642)
   • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Leibniz Wheel (1673)
2. First Data Storage Mechanism
   • Jacques de Vaucanson: Loom using punched cards (1740)
   • Joseph Marie Jacquard: Jacquard's loom (1804)
3. Early Calculating Machines: Charles Babbage
   • : The Difference Engine #1 (1832)
   • The Difference Engine #2 (1852)
   • The Analytical Engine (dev. by son in 1910)
4. Punched Cards: Herman Hollerith
   • Early Card Reader (1888)
   • Automatic Card Reader (1930s)
5. The Vacuum Tube
   • Thomas Eidison: Light Bulb (1884)
   • John Fleming: Valve (1904)
   • Lee DeForest: Audion Tube (1906)
6. Differential Analyzer
   • William Thomson (Lord Kelvin): Tide Predictor (1876)
   • Vannevar Bush: The MIT Differential Analyzer (1930)
7. Electromechanical Computers
   • Howard Aiken: The Harvard/IBM Mark I (1943)
8. World War II Technology
   • The German Navy: The Enigma Machine (1935)
   • Konrad Zuse: The Z1 and Z2 (1936)
   • The British Secret Service: The Colossus Machine (1939)
   • John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert: The ENIAC (1946)
9. Early Computers
   • Maurice Wilkes: First working stored program computer (1949)
   • John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, and John Von Neumann: The EDVAC (1951)
   • Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company: The Remington UNIVAC I(1951)
10. IBM
    • The IBM 701 (1952)
    • The IBM 650 (1953)
11. The Transistor
    • John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brittain: The First Transistor (1946)
    • IBM: The IBM 7090 (used by US Air Force for early warning system) (1959)
    • Sperry-Rand: The UNIVAC III (1962)
    • IBM: System/360 (five different models) (1964)
12. The First Small Computers
    • PDP-1 (1960) and PDP-8 (1966)
    • Digital Equipment Corporation: VT-52 Terminals (c.1975)
13. The Integrated Circuit (Chips)
    • Jack Kilby: Issued a patent covering the basic integrated circuit (1958)
    • Robert Noyce: Patented a method to interconnect the components on a chip (1958)
    • Intel: The first microprocessor chip, the Intel 4004 (1971)
    • Intel: The Intel 8080 (1974)
14. Early Personal Computers
    • Ed Roberts: MITS Altair computer (1974)
    • Bill Millard: IMSAI 8080 (1974)
    • Radio Shack: TRS-80 (1977)
    • Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs: The Apple I and II Computer (1976)
15. The IBM Personal Computer (PC) (1981)
    • Operating systems: CP/M-86 and PC-DOS
16. Software and Operating Systems Development -
    • Microsoft Basic (1974)
    • Microsoft Basic for Apple (1977)
    • Visicalc (1979)
    • WordStar (1979)
    • FORTRAN and COBOL included with the IBM PC (1981)
    • Lotus 1-2-3 (1982)
17. Microsoft Windows
    MS-Windows (1983)
    • Windows 3.0 (1990)
    • Windows '95 (1995)
18. The Macintosh Computer
    • Precursor to the Mac: The Lisa (1983)
    • The Macintosh 128 (1984)
    • The Macintosh II (1987)
    • The PowerMac
19. Compaq Computer Corporation (1983)
20. Other Computer Campanies
21. Laptop Computers
22. World Wide Web