Development of Personal Computers

Far before the invention of modern computers, abacus has been widely used especially by the Chinese people for the calculation purposes. The very first abacus was invented around 500 B.C.(UCMAS, 2007). However the modern abacus that we know today was the one been used in China started around 1300 A.D.(UCMAS, 2007).

In the 1930 census, the United States Government distinguished the differences in whiteness by asking participants to

In the 1930 census, the United States Government distinguished the differences in whiteness by asking participants to write down

These early forms of the census, that did not take into account diverse populations, are a large part of the information that we have from that time.

The Census Act was first passed in March 1, 1790. This act made it so that a census would occur. A census is an event where authorities of an area count the population of the area they have authority over. The first census was done by the marshals in an area, they were allowed to appoint assistants to help them. When the census was taken, the largest city was Philadelphia, with a population of 42,000 people. Second largest was New York City, followed by Boston.

The U.S. Constitution empowers the Congress to carry out the census as directed in Article I, Section 2 of the constitution. The plan was to count every person living in the newly created United States of America, and to use that count to determine representation in the Congress. They accomplished that goal in 1790 and our country has every 10 years since then. Eventually on July 1, 1903 The United States Census Bureau was founded to count every resident in the United States.

The origin of the computer resides with the military. The computer itself was created by the military during the Cold War era, when we were in a technological race with Russia. This race was the fuel for massive advancements in technology especially in the sector of computer intelligence. The first Computer’s were physically large enough to fill an entire room. They were used to manage large quantities of data in textual and numerical form. The government backed certain research facilities in the advancement of the computer and some investigated and experimented in computer technology with art and music. 1

Census records are accurate in the sense that the informant is required by law to be honest with the enumerator (the person that went house to house… to house). However, this didn’t always happen for various reasons!

The US Census dates back to 1790 and is currently headed quartered in Suitland, Md. As of 1942. As an element of the US Department of Commerce the US Census is overseen by the Economics and Statistics administration. The US. Census Staffs over 4,285 members. The goal of the US Census Bureau is to provide the U.S. quality, accurate data that represent demographic truths of the U.S. The US. Census counts the population every 10 years. The census counts every person who resides in the 50states and US territories. There have been a total of 22 censuses taken so far dating back to 1790. Each household is mailed questionnaires and households are mailed a second questionnaire if the first one is not taken. If households fail to respond

Spinning Machines have helped the American Industry for as long as they have been around. The idea of having a spinning machine was to make wool into yarn; this made it easier for people in the clothing industry more productive with the making of their products. Compared to today’s spinning machines for wool and clothing making, spinning machines then were just the building blocks for the clothing industry. The idea of Spinning Machines was introduced by James Hargreaves in 1764. Hargreaves before his invention was working as a weaver and carpenter in his home country of land Sandhill, Lancashire. He himself was illiterate, but he understood weavers’ problem with trying to produce thread. He presented his Spinning Jenny, named after his wife

JUST TO LET YOU KNOW THE EASY PART WAS USING THE CENSUS TO BACK TO THE 1870’s.

The machine may have originated in 1066 but can only be proved to being used from the 1280’s and on (Wilde). John of Dalton is thought to be the first victim of the Halifax Gibbet in the year 1286 (HistoryLearningSite). The Halifax Gibbet was retired on April 30th, 1650 (Wilde).

William Seward Burroughs was an American inventor born on January 28, 1855, in Auburn, New York. He is known as the inventor of the first adding machine and a pioneer in the machine’s manufacture. He had a brief education and began supporting himself at fifteen years of age. In 1881, He started working in his father’s shop in St. Louis, Missouri. There, he constructed models for casting and coming up with new ideas for inventions. He decided to invent a machine that was able to solve arithmetical problems, and he received financial help from his friend named Thomas B. Metcalfe. Burroughs completed his first calculating machine in 1855. Initially, this invention was viewed as commercially impractical, but he organized the American Arithmometer Company in 1886 with the help of Metcalfe and two other businessmen. After much trial and error, Burroughs patented a practical model in 1892. He died on September 15, 1898, in

The first ever computer was invented in the 1820s by Charlse Babbage. However the first electronic digital computer were developed between 1940 and 1945 in the United States and in the United Kingdom. They were gigantic, originally the size of a large room, and also need to be supply a large amount of power source which is equivalent as several hundred modern personal computers. The history of computer hardware covers the developments from simple devices to aid calculation, to mechanical calculators, punched card data processing and on to modern stored program computers. The tools or mechanical tool used to help in calculation are called calculators while the machine operator that help in calculations is called computer. At first the

However, nothing could stop Charles’s unswervingly spirit at that time, in 1837, he proposed the first general mechanical computer, the Analytical Engine. The Analytical Engine contained an Arithmetic Logic Unit (ALU), basic flow control, punch cards (inspired by the Jacquard Loom), and integrated memory. It was the first general-purpose computer concept. Then in 1936, the Turing Machine was invented by Alan Turing, it was a machine that printed symbols on paper tape in a manner that emulated a person following a series of logical instructions. The theory of Turing Machine laid the foundation about computing and computers. Since there, the computer industry’s development started an explosive growth. In 1943, J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly began constructing the first functional and digital computer called “ENIAC” until 1946 when the computer was complete. The appearance of ENIAC marked the beginning of a new era in not only computer’s history but also in human’s history. The theories and ideas in ENIAC promoted the Third Revolution. In fact, I believe the Third Revolution started from here. The world was no longer the same as before, it changed by those great and intelligent scientists, and I call it the “G-World”.