Origin

Origin

The information is a term that was invented by Phillip Dreyfus in France in 1962 and accepted by the French Academic in 1966. In Spain they accepted it in 1968. This term comes from the French word informative.

The first mechanical calculating machine, a precursor of the digital computer, was invented in 1642 by the French mathematician Blaise Pascal. That device used a series of ten-tooth wheels in which each of the teeth represented a digit from 0 to 9. The wheels were connected in such a way that numbers could be added by making them advance the correct number of teeth. In 1670 the German philosopher and mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz perfected this machine and invented one that could also multiply

Analog computers began to be built at the beginning of the 20th century. The first models performed the calculations using rotating shafts and gears. With these machines, the numerical approximations of equations too difficult to be solved by other methods were evaluated. During the two world wars, analogue computer systems, first mechanical and later electrical, were used to predict the trajectory of torpedoes in submarines and for the remote control of aviation bombs.