HISTORY OF THE COMPUTING INDUSTRY. The history of the computing industry extends its roots from beyond the history of computing hardware from the early 19th century to the modern computing technology marked by the key innovations such as the transistor , integrated circuit and the internet. ANALYSIS OF MAJOR MILESTONES IN THE HISTORY OF COMPUTING. .1820 – 1940 Mechanical calculators to the first digital computers. -Between the 1820s to the 1840s a mechanical engineer named Charles Babbage designed the first mechanical computers that could perform arithmetical calculations and with key computer features such as a arithmetic logic unit , a memory unit with the use of conditional branching .Along side a mathematician Ada Lovelace wrote the first algorithm that was intented to be carried out by a computer she became the first computer programmer . BIRTH OF ELECTRONIC DIGITAL COMPUTING. -In the year 1943 an engineer Tommy flower and other Brit...