A brief glimpse into the history of technology and other articles.
In 1822 Charles Babbage an English mathematician, philosopher, inventor, and mechanical engineer. Created the first computer known as a Difference Engine.
This Difference Engine is an automatic mechanical calculator using many different forms of mathematical formulas to produce sets of numbers.
Joseph Marie Jacquard in 1800 invented the loom also known as Jaquard’s Loom is a device to weave cloth with a certain amount of pressure. This simplified the process of manufacturing textiles with complex patterns. The loom is controlled by punched cards with punched holes, each row of which corresponds to one row of the design. Multiple rows of holes are punched on each card and the many cards that compose the design of the textile are strung together in order.
The Jacquard loom was the first machine to use punched cards to control a sequence of operations. Although it did no computation based on them, it is considered an important step in the history of computing hardware. The ability to change the pattern of the loom’s weave by simply changing cards was an important conceptual precursor to the development of computer programming. Specifically, Charles Babbage planned to use cards to store programs in his Analytical engine.
Enter Johann Gutenberg and movable type circa 1500 was responsible creating the printing press that used separate letter shapes to form the individual blocks of words that could be inked. This was a derivation of the Chinese printing methods over a half a millennium before. Gutenberg used this method to use singular letter shapes arranged together for printing pages of type. This allowed far more printing and less work to generate more pages at a lessen cost for the time.
With the invention of movable type by the Chinese, the use of papyrus from the Egyptians, the idea of books became more apparent. In Europe years after the fall of the Roman empire the first printed books were created by monks these early books were called codex. The first books were handmade craftsmanship built in monasteries, the books were called Illuminated Manuscripts. Here is the example from the book of Kells.
The Trajan Column was a monument erected by the Roman Emperor Trajan, as visual storyboard of his victorious conquests through out the empire. It rises 100ft over ground level with sculptured reliefs that wrap around the column of his battles.
The earliest form of visual communication dates back to the Paleolithic Period. These cave paintings were discovered in 1941 by 4 boys who stumbled up this cave while out playing.
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