The History of the Computer

by Elizabeth Raum

Overview

How big were the first computers? What jobs were computers used for in the past? When was the World Wide Web invented? Take a journey through time and discover the amazing history of the computer!

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781403496492
Publisher:	Capstone
Publication date:	08/25/2007
Series:	Inventions that Changed the World
Pages:	32
Product dimensions:	7.90(w) x 8.70(h) x 0.20(d)
Age Range:	6 - 9 Years

About the Author

Elizabeth Raum has written over two-dozen nonfiction books for young readers, including a biography of Louis Armstrong for Capstone Press. Over the years, she has worked as a middle school and high school English teacher, an elementary school librarian, and a college library director. Elizabeth Raum has written many nonfiction books for children. Two of her Capstone You Choose books, Orphan Trains: An Interactive History Adventure (2011) and Can You Survive Storm Chasing? (2012), are Junior Library Guild selections. Elizabeth lives in Michigan with her husband, Richard.

Table of Contents

Before Computers     4
Help with Numbers     6
The First Computers     8
A Computer as Big as a House     10
Making Computers Better     12
Personal Computers     14
Computer Programs     16
A Mouse Helps Out     18
Computers to Take with You     20
The Internet     22
The World Wide Web     24
How Computers Changed Life     26
Timeline     28
World Map Activity     29
Find Out More     30
Glossary     37
Index     32