They discovered how to make an electric switch with solid materials and no need for a vacuum.ġ953: Grace Hopper develops the first computer language, which eventually becomes known as COBOL. Considered the grandfather of digital computers, it fills a 20-foot by 40-foot room and has 18,000 vacuum tubes.ġ946: Mauchly and Presper leave the University of Pennsylvania and receive funding from the Census Bureau to build the UNIVAC, the first commercial computer for business and government applications.ġ947: William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invent the transistor.
Presper Eckert, build the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator (ENIAC ).
This marks the first time a computer is able to store information on its main memory.ġ943-1944: Two University of Pennsylvania professors, John Mauchly and J.
1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design a computer that can solve 29 equations simultaneously.
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