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Computer History
Timeline Notes
Inventor | Invention/Date |
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Blaise Pascal | Pascaline-1642 |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Stepped Reckoner-1670 |
Charles Babbage | Analytical Engine-1842 |
Herman Hollerith | Tabulating Machine-1890 |
John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry | Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)-1939 |
Howard H. Aiken | Mark I-1944 |
John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator (ENIAC)-1946 |
Alan Turing | The Turing Machine (The Enigma)-1936 |
Jon von Neumann | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)-1947 & (Inspired) Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC)-1949 |
William Shockley, John Bardeen, & Walter Brittain | Transistor-1947 |
Grace Murray Hopper | Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL)-1959 to 1961 1st programmer for Mark I |
Jack Kilby | 1st Integrated Circuit-1958 1st Handheld Calculator |
William Gates III | Founded Microsoft-1975 |
Paul Allen | Co-founder Microsoft-1975 |
Thomas Knoll & John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop-1988 |