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Computer History
Timeline
| Inventor | Invention/Date |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | Pascaline-1642 |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Stepped Reckoner-1670 |
| Charles Babbage | Analytical Engine-1842 |
| Herman Hollerith | Tabulating Machine-1890 |
| John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry | Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)-1939 |
| Howard H. Aiken | Mark 1 |
| John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator (ENIAC)-1946 |
| Alan Turing | Turing Machine (Enigma)-late 30's and 40's |
| Jon von Neumann | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC)-1947 |
| William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittain | Transistor-1947 |
| Grace Murray Hopper | Common Business Oriented Language (COBOL) |
| Jack Kilby | 1st hand held calculator |
| William (Bill) Gates III | Founder of Microsoft |
| Paul Allen Jan. | Co-founder of Microsoft |
| Thomas Knoll and John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop-1988 |
| Peter Arvai, Peter Halacasy, and Adam Somlai Ficher | Prezi-2009 |
| Steve Russell (Slug) | First Computer Game (Space War) |
| Alan Shugart | Floppy Disk-1967 |