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Computer History
Timeline
| Inventor | Invention/ date |
|---|---|
| Blaise Plascal, 1623-1662 | Mechanical calculating device, Pascaline- 1462 |
| Gottfried Wihelm von Leibniz, 1646-1716 | Stepped Reckoner -1670 |
| Charles Babbage 1792-1871 | Analytical engine-calculating machine -1842 |
| Herman Hollerith, 1860-1929 | Tabulating machine 1890 |
| John Atanasoff 1903-1959 Clifford Berry 1918-1953 | Atanasoff-Berry computer 1939 |
| Howard H. Aiken | Mark 1 1944 |
| John Mauchly 1907-1980 J. Presper Eckert 1919-1959 | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator -1946 |
| Alan Turing 1912- 1954 | Turing machine, The Enigma - late 1930s n 1940s |
| Jon von Neumann 1903-1957 | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer- 1947 |
| William Shockley John Bardeen Walter Brittain | Transistor- 1947 |
| Grace Murray Hopper 1906-1992 | Common Business Oriented Language- 1960 |
| Jack Kilby 1923-2005 | 1st Integrated Circuit- 1958 1st hand held calculator |
| William Gates III 1951 | Microsoft- 1958 |
| Paul Allen 1953 | Microsoft- 1958 |
| Thomas Knoll John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop 1988 |
| Adam Fischer Peter Halacsy Peter Arvai | Prezi- 2008 |