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Computer History
Timeline
Inventer | Invention/date |
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Blaise Pascal 1623 - 1692 | Invented a Mechanica device called pascaline. 1642 |
Gottfriead Wilhelm von leibniz 1646 - 1716 | invented the stepped reckoner in 1670. |
Charles Babbage 1792 - 1871 | Analytical Engine-calculating machine that used punched cards to store information in 1842. |
Herman Holloerith 1860 - 1920 | Invented the tabulating machine in 1890. |
John Atansoff 1903 - 1995 Clifford Berry 1918 - 1963 | Atansoff-berry computer (ABC) (1939) used bunary number system used in computers today. |
Howard H. Aiken Mark 1 - 1944 | Over 51 feet long and weighed over 5 tons ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator) First large scale automatic digital computer |
John Mauchly 1907 - 1995 J. presper Eckert 1919 - 1995 | Worked on ENIAC (elctronic Numerical Intregration and calculator in 1946 |
Alan Turing 1912 - 1954 | Developed idea of a universal machine in the late 30's and 40's the device called "Enigma" |
Jon von Neumann 1903 - 1957 | built the EDVAC (Electronical Discrete Automatic Computer) with Mauchly and Eckert in 1947 |
William Shockley John Bardeen and walter Brittain | Transistor 1947 |
Grace Murray Hopper 1906 - 1992 | Designed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) |
Jack Kilby 1923 - 2005 | invented the 1st intregated circuit in 1958 |