Brief history of Computer The abacus,shown in below,is a calculator;its first recorded use was circa 500 B.C. The Chine used it to add, subtract,multiply,and divide.
- In 17th century BLAISE PASCAL a mathematician and scientist of France developed the first mechanical calculator, which he called the "Pascalins".
- CHARLES BABBAGE a mathematician of UK in 1822 designed a special type of calculator called "differnce Engir.e"and in 1833 he developed a machine called "ANALYTICAL ENGINE".
- Later on American Scientists working at Howard University developed computer between 1937 and 1943 called"Howard mark-1".
- First electronic computer wa developed in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania USA.
- First Personal (PC) was developed in 1981.
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