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Computer History
Timeline
Inventor | Invention/Date |
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Blaise Pascal | Invented a mechanical calculating device called Pascaline. 1642 |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Invented the Stepped Reckoner in 1670 |
Charles Babbage | Invented the Analytical Engine-calculating machine in 1842 |
Herman Hollerith | Invented the tabulating machine in 1890 |
John Atanasoff, Clifford Berry | Invented the Astanasoff-Berry computer in 1939 |
Howard H. Aiken | Invented Mark 1 in 1944 |
John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert | Developed ENIAC in 1946 |
Alan Turing | Developed idea of a universal machine in the late 30's and 40's |
Jon von Neumann | Invented the EDVAC in 1947 |
William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brittain | Invented Transistor in 1947 |
Grace Murray hopper | Invented COBOL |
Jack Kilby | Invented the 1st integrated Circuit in 1958 |
William Gates | Invented the Microsoft Company in 1958 |
Paul Allen | Invented Co-founder if Microsoft in 1958 |
Thomas Knoll, John Knoll | Invented Adobe Photoshop in 1988 |
Adam Fisher, Peter Halascy and Peter Arvai | Invented Prezi in 2008 |