The Brief History of the Computer - 19th Century

• Joseph Marie Jacquard, a weaver and businessman from France devised a loom that employed punched wooden cards to automatically weave cloth designs in 1801.


• Charles Babbage, a mathematician invented the steam-powered calculating machine capable of calculating number tables in 1822.


• The world's first computer program was written by Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician in 1848.


• Inventor, Herman Hollerith creates the punch card technique used to calculate the 1880 U.S. Census in 1890.