History of computing

Listening to "A History of Rome", I'd love to do something like this for computing.

General Notes

Things to cover

• Babbage and Lovelace
• US Census machine
• Turn of the century math
  • Boolean logic
  • Hilbert Program
• Single purpose machines
• Electrical devices
  • Switching
    • Relay
    • Vacuum tube
    • Transistor
  • Memory
    • Punch card
    • Mercury delay line
    • Williams Tube
    • Magnetic memory
• Godel proof
• Turing "On the Computability of Numbers"
• Church Lambda calculus
• ENIAC
• Von Neumann & Jonniac
• Claude Shannon and information theory
• Grace Hopper
• Cryptography
• Unix and C
• The Internet and the Web

Trends to Cover

• Mathematics of Information theory
• Development of electronics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_computing

Posts

The first Computer

It's not easy to assign what the first computer was

• Babbage engine
• Z1
• Eniac
• UNIVAC