Part one of term paper
In 1642, a man by the name of Blaise Pascal came up with the first "digital calculating machine". He made it as a gift for his father, who was a tax collector. This "digital calculating machine" worked with addittions entered by dial. Then in 1694, Gottfried Von Lebniz invented a calculating machine that could add and multiply. In 1812, comp ...

Part two of term paper
... In 1823, he started construction of a full-scale "difference engine". It was designed to be steam powered, fully automatic and was to be comanded by a fixed instruction programer. Babbaged worked on the "full-scale difference engine" for 10 years, but in 1833, he began to loose intrest because he had a better idea; the construction of what today would be described as a fully program controlled, automatic mechanical digital computer. He called this machine a "analytical engine". This "analytical engi ...