Computer History 

Computers in the 1940's

 

1943: In January of 1943 the first electrical computer is introduced.  Howard Aiken and IBM developed the first fully automatic 'electro-mechanical' machine capable of not only addition, but other functions such as multiplication, and trig functions as well.  The machine was known as the "Harvard Mark I".  The machine that Charles Babagge had designed 300 years earlier becomes a working model.  Work on the project began in the late 1930's