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The Mechanical Age: 1450 - 1840

The mechanical age from 1450 to 1840 saw the first information explosion with Gutenberg's printing press and the development of book indexes. Early general purpose "computers" were people who performed calculations. Analog computers like the slide rule and Pascaline's mechanical calculator were invented. Gottfried Leibniz's machine also performed calculations mechanically. Charles Babbage designed analytical engines, predecessors to modern computers, that used punch cards like Joseph Jacquard's loom. Considered the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm for Babbage's analytical engine.

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The Mechanical Age: 1450 - 1840

The mechanical age from 1450 to 1840 saw the first information explosion with Gutenberg's printing press and the development of book indexes. Early general purpose "computers" were people who performed calculations. Analog computers like the slide rule and Pascaline's mechanical calculator were invented. Gottfried Leibniz's machine also performed calculations mechanically. Charles Babbage designed analytical engines, predecessors to modern computers, that used punch cards like Joseph Jacquard's loom. Considered the first computer programmer, Ada Lovelace wrote an algorithm for Babbage's analytical engine.

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Jessa Clair R.

Divina GE-IT
BSCE-3B
Assignment 3
Research about the history of Information Technology in mechanical age.

 The Mechanical Age: 1450 - 1840

1. The First Information Explosion.


1. Johann Gutenberg (Mainz, Germany)
 Invented the movable metal-type printing process in 1450.
2. The development of book indexes and the widespread use of page numbers.
2. The first general purpose "computers"

1. Actually, people who held the job title "computer: one who works with numbers."
2. Slide Rules, the Pascaline and Leibniz's Machine.
1. Slide Rule.

Early 1600s, William Oughtred, an English clergyman, invented the slide rule

 Early example of an analog computer.

2. The Pascaline.

Invented by Blaise Pascal (1623-62).


The Pascaline (front) (rear view)

Diagram of interior

 One of the
first
mechanical
computing
machines,
around 1642.

3. Leibniz's Machine.
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-
1716), German mathematician and
philosopher.
The Reckoner (reconstruction)

4. Babbage's Engines

Charles Babbage (1792-1871), eccentric English mathematician

The Difference Engine.

 Working model created in 1822.


 The "method of differences".
The Analytical Engine.

 Designed during the 1830s


 Parts remarkably similar
to modern-day computers.
 The "store"
 The "mill"
 Punch cards.
Joseph Marie Jacquard's loom.

 Punch card idea picked up by Babbage from Joseph Marie


Jacquard's (1752-1834) loom.
 Introduced in 1801.
 Binary logic
 Fixed program that would operate in real time.

Augusta Ada Byron (1815-52).

The first programmer

SOURCE: https://tcf.ua.edu/AZ/ITHistoryOutline.htm

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