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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-calculating machine - 1842 |
| Herman Hollerith | Tabulating machine - 1890 |
| John Atanasoff/Clifford Berry | Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) - 1939 |
| Howard H. Aiken | Mark 1/ASCC (Automatic SequenceControlled Calculator) - 1944 |
| John Mauchly/J. Presper Eckert | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator) - 1946 |
| Alan Turning | Turning Machine/The Enigma - late 1930's and 1940's |
| John von Neumann | EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) - 1947 |
| William Shockley/John Bardeen/Walter Brittain | Transistor - 1947 |
| Grace Murray Hopper | COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) - 1959-1961 |
| Jack Kilby | 1st Integrated Circuit - 1958 |
| Steve Russel | First Computer Game (Space War) - 1962 |
| Alan F. Shugart | Floppy Disk Drive (FDD) - 1967 |
| William Gates III/Paul Allen | Microsoft Corporation - 1975 |
| Thomas Knoll/John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop - 1988 |
| Peter Arvai/ Peter Hallascy/ Adam Somlai Fischer | Prezi - 2009 |