Emptech

• Empowerment technology often deals with the use of different technologies such as mobile phones, telephone, computer, and other devices to locate, save, communicate, and to inform.
• A computer is a machine or device that performs processes, calculations and operations based on instructions provided by a software or hardware program.
• When did the Premechanical Period Start

  Around 3000 BCE to 1450 CE
• A pictogram, also called a pictogramme, pictograph, or simply picto, and in computer usage an icon, is an ideogram that conveys its meaning through its pictorial resemblance to a physical object
• It is distinguished by its wedge-shaped marks on clay tablets, made by means of a blunt reed for a stylus.

  Cuneiform
• Earliest forms of writing

  Cuneiform
• Latin word where cuneiform came from

  cuneus, meaning wedge
• Sumerians‘ paper and pen

  stylus and wet clay
• Egyptian’s paper and pen

  papyrus plants (2600 BC)
• Chinese’s paper and pen

  Paper made from rags (100 AD)
• Earliest counting device made by Chinese

  abacus
• Who invented the Napier Bone?

  John Napier
• What did Blaise Pascal invent?

  Pascaline
• made of sticks where logarithm values were carved and used similarly to multiplication

  The Napier Bone
• 50 gear-driven one function calculator used to add

  Pascaline
• When was the Pascaline invented?

  1642
• Who invented the Leibnitz calculator?

  Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibnitz
• controlled by punched cards

  automatic loom
• Who developed the automatic looms (weave looms)?

  Joseph Marie Jacquard
• When was the automatic loom developed?

  1801
• Who developed the arithmometer?

  Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmor
• When was the arithmometer developed?

  1820
• first mass produced calculator


  arithmometer
• the father of modern computer

  Charles Babbage
• Who invented the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine?

  Charles Babbage
• When was the Difference Engine and the Analytical Engine invented?

  1821 and 1832
• first computer programmer

  Lady Ada Augusta Lovelace Byron
• first device to use electricity to transmit information over an electrical media

  telegraph
• Who first invented the telegraph?

  William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone
• When did William Cooke and Sir Charles Wheatstone invent the telegraph?

  1837
• Who introduced the first single-circuit telegraph?

  Samuel Morse
• When did Samuel Morse introduce the first single-circuit telegraph?

  1844
• a method used in telecommunication to encode text characters as standardized sequences of two different signal durations called dots and dashes or dits and dahs

  Morse Code
• the inventor of the telephone

  Alexander Graham Bell
• When was the patent for the telephone granted?

  1876
• When was the first working telephone developed?

  1879
• Who invented the radio?

  Guglielmo Marconi
• The radio was invented in the year…

  1894
• What does ENIAC stand for?

  Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
• the first electronic general-purpose digital computer

  ENIAC