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History Timeline
| Term | |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | invented a mechanical calculating device called Pascaline |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Invented the Stepped Reckoner |
| Charles Babbage | Created the Analytical Engine-calculating machine that used punched cards to store information. |
| Herman Hollerith | invented the tabulating machine |
| John Atanasoff & Clifford Barry | Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC)used binary number system used in computers today |
| Mark 1 | invented the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC) |
| John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert | worked on ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integration & Calculator) |
| Alan Turning | Invented the turning machine "the enigma" |
| John Von Neumann | Built the EDVAC (Electronic discrete variable automatic computer) with Maulchy & Eckert. |
| William Shockley, John Bardeen, & Walter Brittain | Invented the Transistor |
| Grace Murray Hopper | Designed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) |
| Jack Kilby | Developed the 1st integreted circuit; invented the 1st hand held calculator |
| William Gates | Founder of Microsoft Corporation |
| Paul Allen | Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation |
| Thomas & John Knoll | Creators of Adobe Photoshop. |