Joseph Marie Jacquard, a weaver and businessman from France devised a loom that employed punched wooden cards to automatically weave cloth designs in 1801.
Charles Babbage, a mathematician invented the steam-powered calculating machine capable of calculating number tables in 1822.
The world's first computer program was written by Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician in 1848.
Inventor, Herman Hollerith creates the punch card technique used to calculate the 1880 U.S. Census in 1890.
