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Computer History
Time-Line
| Inventor | Invention |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | Mechanical Calculating device called Pascaline - 1642 |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | The Stepped Reckoner - 1670 |
| Charles Babbage | Analytical Engine-calculating machine- 1842 |
| Herman Hollerith | Tabulating Machine - 1890 |
| John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry | ABC computer - 1939 |
| Howard H. Aiken | Mark 1 - 1944 |
| John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator - 1946 |
| Alan Turing | The Enigma - late 1930 - 1940 |
| Jon von Neumann | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer - 1947 |
| William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain | Transistor - 1947 |
| Grace Murray Hopper | Common Business Oriented Language, first program for Mark 1 |
| Jack Kilby | 1st Integrated Circuit and 1st Calculator - 1958 |
| William Gates III | Microsoft - 1975 |
| Paul Allen Jan | Co-Founder of Microsoft - 1975 |
| Thomas Knoll & John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop - 1988 |