[...]... commercial computer, for the U.S Navy and National Security Agency (NSA) (United States) The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) , an American commercial computer, is created by Remington Rand for the U.S Census Bureau (United States) Ferranti Mark I, a British commercial computer, is unveiled (England) Lyons Tea Co announces Lyons Electronic Office, a British commercial computer (England) 1952 xviii... 2.7 ϫ 1019 kilometers (1.7 ϫ 1019 miles) Distance to Great Nebula in Andromeda Galaxy Measurements (Continued) xiv Sizes of and Distance to Objects Timeline: Significant Events in the History of Computing The history of computer sciences has been filled with many creative inventions and intriguing people Here are some of the milestones and achievements in the field c300-500 CE 1200 BCE The counting board,... environment, is produced (United States) 1955 Sperry Corp and Remington Rand merge to form the Sperry Rand Corporation (United States) 1957 Robert N Noyce, Gordon E Moore, and others found Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation (United States) Seymour Cray, William Norris, and others establish Control Data Corporation (United States) Kenneth Olsen and Harlan Anderson launch Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC)... the integrated circuit (Sweden) Timeline: The History of Programming, Markup and Scripting Languages The history of computer sciences has been filled with many creative inventions and intriguing people Here are some of the milestones and achievements in the field of computer programming and languages CE c800 al-Khowarizmi, Mohammed ibn-Musa develops a treatise on algebra, his name allegedly giving rise... Wright Forrester and Robert Everett construct the Whirlwind I, a digital, real-time computer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (United States) 1950 J H Wilkinson and Edward A Newman design the Pilot ACE (Automatic Computing Engine) implementing the Turing proposal for a computing machine at the National Physical Laboratory (NPL) (England) Remington Rand acquires the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation... Thought (Ireland) 1870 William Stanley Jevons produces a logic machine (England) 1873 William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, devises the analog tide predictor (Scotland) Christopher Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W Soule invent the Sholes and Glidden Typewriter; produced by E Remington & Sons (United States) 1875 Frank Stephen Baldwin constructs a pin wheel calculator (United States) 1876 Alexander Graham... History of Computing Remington Rand Model 409, an American commercial computer, is originated by Remington Rand for the Internal Revenue Service (United States) Remington Rand acquires Engineering Research Associates (United States) 1953 The IBM 701, a scientific computer, is constructed (United States) 1954 The IBM 650 EDPM, electronic data processing machine, a stored-program computer in a punched-card... coins the term computer bug” while working on the Mark I (United States) 1946 J Presper Eckert Jr and John W Mauchly construct the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) , xvii Timeline: Significant Events in the History of Computing the first American general-purpose electronic computer, at the Moore School, University of Pennsylvania (United States) J Presper Eckert Jr and John W Mauchly... later becomes the EckertMauchly Computer Corporation (United States) 1947 John Bardeen, Walter H Brattain, and William B Shockley invent the transistor at Bell Laboratories (United States) J Presper Eckert Jr and John W Mauchly develop the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) , a stored-program computer (United States) 1948 F C Williams, Tom Kilburn, and G C (Geoff) Tootill create... 1600s and uses logarithms ubiquitous to be commonly available everywhere The slide rule is an example of a mechanical analog computer while the adding machine is an example of a mechanical digital computer The slide rule could do any common mathematical function except add and subtract The interesting characteristic of the slide rule was the device actually added and subtracted but it added and subtracted . Lane Macmillan Reference USA Frank Menchaca, Vice President Hélène G. Potter, Editor in Chief computer sciences V OLUME 1 Foundations: Ideas and People Roger R. Flynn, Editor in Chief Copyright © 2002 by. Early Pioneers; Generations, Languages; and Generations, Computers. Numerical Integrator and Computer) and the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) . Finally, other articles of. Atanasoff and John Mauchley and J. Presper Eckert Jr. over the patent to the electronic digital computer and regenerative memory, symbolized and embodied in the law- suits between Sperry-Rand (Mauchley-Eckert)