1890: Tabulating Machine
American inventor Herman Hollerith invented the Tabulating Machine as an...
Science
1837: The Analytical Engine
While working on the Difference Engine, Babbage had a better...
1725: Basile BouchonÂ
In Lyon, France, textile worker Basile Bouchon created a method to...
1822: The Difference Engine
English mathematician Charles Babbage was tired of typographical errors in...
Early Encryption
A transposition cipher changes the position of the letters in...
A History of Data
Developed in 1956, the IBM RAMAC 350 was the first...
Hexadecimal
Most people find binary numbers difficult to work with. The...
Braille
Braille, developed by French inventor Louis Braille (1809–1852), is a...
Pareidolia
The human brain is constantly searching for familiar patterns. So...
First integrated circuit
The first integrated circuit was created in 1958 by American...