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Computer History
Timeline
Inventor | Invention |
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Blaise Pascal 1623-1662 | Mechanical calculating device called Pascaline. 1642 |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz 1646-1716 | Stepped Reckoner in 1670. |
Charles Babbage 1792-1871 | Analytical Engine- Calculating machine. 1842 |
Herman Hollerith 1860-1929 | Tabulating Machine in 1890 |
John Atanasoff 1903-1995 | computer ABC |
J. Presper Eckert 1919-1995 | military project that was top secret. |
Alan Turing 1912-1954 | developed idea of a universal machine in the late 30's and 40's |
Jon von Neuman 1903-1957 | built the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) |
William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brittain | transistor |
Grace Murray Hopper 1906-1992 | designed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) |
Jack Kilby 1923-2005 | 1st hand-held calculator |
William "Bill" Gates III -October 28, 1951 | Microsoft Corporation |
Paul Allen -January 21, 1953 | owner of Portland Trail Blazers |
Thomas & John Knoll | software engineers, creators of Adobe Photoshop |
Mark 1- Howard H. Aiken 1944 | first large scale automatic digital computer |
John Mauchly 1907-1980 | ENIAC (Electrical numeral integration and calculator) |
Ethernet Computer Networking | Electrical engineer |
Arpanet | |
PREZI |