Evolution of Computing: Electro-Mechanical and Electronic Period

🔌 The electro-mechanical age marked the development of telecommunication and the creation of batteries.

📡 The telegraph was the first major invention to utilize electricity for communication, enabling fast transmission of information over long distances.

🌍 Telegraph made it possible to transmit information from one location to another location.

⚡️ Electrical waves can travel through space and produce effects at a distance.

📻 The invention of the radio was a result of advancements in electrical wave transmission.

💻 The International Business Machine Corporation (IBM) was founded by Alexander Graham Bell.

Electro-Mechanical computing period and the introduction of the automatic sequence controlled calculator (ASCC).

The ASCC was the largest electromechanical calculator used during World War II.

Inventor Howard Aiken and his role in the development of the ASCC.

🧮 The first electronic calculator, known as Harvard Mark 1, was presented to IBM in 1937.

🏢 Harvard University staff and others used the Harvard Mark 1 for automatic computations.

⚙️ The Mark 1, with its massive size and intricate design, was a pioneering machine of its time.

📝 The electronic age of computing began in the 1940s when scientists realized that vacuum tubes could replace electromechanical parts.

⚡️ This period marked a shift from mechanical computing to electronic computing.

💻 The first high-speed computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), was developed by John Markley and Jay Prosper Eckert.

⚡ ENIAC could perform arithmetic calculations in milliseconds and calculate artillery trajectories in about 20 seconds.

🔢 The British scientist at Cambridge University completed the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) two years before EDVAC was finished.

📚 The video discusses the history of computing, including the development of the first stored program computer and the transition to the electronic age.

⚙️ It mentions the different generations of computing, starting from vacuum tubes to integrated circuits, leading up to the invention of the processor.

🔢 The video touches on the importance of ethernet and highlights the fourth generation of digital computing.