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History of Information

Technology and System


Four basic periods
Characterized by a principal technology used
to solve the input, processing, output and
communication problems of the time:

a. Pre mechanical,
b. Mechanical,
c. Electromechanical, and
d. Electronic
C. The Electromechanical Age
1840-1940

-The discovery of ways to harness electricity


was the key advance made during this
period. Knowledge and information could
now be converted into electrical impulses.
Voltaic Battery
Telegraph
Telephone and Radio
The first electric battery, known as the
Voltaire pile was invented a8th century by
Alessandro Volta.
Samuel F.J. Morse conceived of his version
of an electromagnetic telegraph in 1832 and
constructed an experiment version in 1815.
• Alexander Graham Bell.
• 1876
• Followed by the discovery that
electrical waves travel through
space and can produce an effect
far from the point at which they
originated by Guglielmo Marconi
in 1894
• These two events led to the
invention of the radio
• 1852-George Boole develops
binary algebra
Tabulating Machine
Comptometer
Comptograph
Punched cards
Pehr and Advard Scheutz complete
their tabulating Machine, capable of
processing fifteen-digit numbers,
printing out results and rounding off to
eight digits.
Dorr Felt devises the Comptometer, a key driven
adding and subtracting calculator.

Felt’s Comptograph, containing built-in


printer, is intoduced
Herman Hollerith was the first person
to successfully use punched cards in
1890.
 was adapted for use in early
computers and provided computer
programmers with a new way to put
information into their machine.
Hollerith was the father of
information processing and
found the Tabulating machine
Company which later became
the Computer Tabulating
Recording Company.

Hollerith company went to


become the International
Business Machines
Corporation known today
as IBM.
The Millionaire, the first
efficeint four-function
calculator invented by
Otto shweiger, a Swiss
Engineer.

Vacuum tube was


developed by Lee De
Forest which provide
electricity controlled
switch.
The Electronic Age:
1941-Present
•In 1941, Konrad Zuse built the first
programmable computer called Z3. A
computer is programmable because of
following instructions.
• Z3 is designed to solve engineering equations
rather than basic arithmetic problems.
1942
• Howard Aiken a PhD student of Harvard
University built the Mark I “ The First
Stored Program Computer”
John Atanasoff and Clifford berry completed the
first all-electric computer the ABC (Atanasoff-
Berry computer).
•was the first computer to use electricity in the
form of vacuum tubes to make electric
computation possible.
•Used for solving complex system of equations.
Thank
You For
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