Machines at the heart of the information age have revolutionized our lives, digitizing our world, automating previously unimaginable tasks, and connecting people around the world.
Modern Marvels® presents a fascinating exploration of the history of computing. See Charles Babbage’s Victorian ‘counting machine’, a mechanical computer that could provide perfect results for any math problem with six digits or fewer, and learn how IBM introduced punching Card counting machine to speed up the 1890 census.
Follow the technological advances that led to the birth of the first modern computers, and witness the rapid evolution that shrunk them from room-sized monsters to desktop devices that revolutionized life in the ’90s.
Enter the rapidly evolving world of technology and innovation with Birth of the Computer, unraveling the extraordinary story of the most influential invention of the modern era.
