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Computer History
Timeline Notes
Inventor | Invention/Date |
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Blaise Pascal | Mechanical Calculating Device (pascaline) 1642 |
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnis | Stepped Roeckoner 1670 |
Charles Babbage | Analyctical Engine-calculating machine that used punched cards to store info 1842 |
Herman Hollerith | Tabulating machine 1890 |
John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry | Anatasoff-Berry Computer 1939 |
Howard H. Aiken | Mark 1 1944 |
John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert | ENIAC (Electronical Numerical Integration and Calculator) 1946 |
Alan Turing | Turing Machine late 30's and 40's |
Jon von Neuman | Built EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) 1949 |
William Shockley, John Bardeen, & Walter Brittain | Transitor 1947 |
Grace Murray Hopper | Designed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) 10 years to invent |
Jack Kilby | Integrated circuit 1958 / Hand held calculator |
William Gates III (Bill Gates) | Founder of Microsoft Corporation 1975 |
Paul Allen | Co-founder of Microsoft and owns SeaHawks and Trail Blazers |
Thomas Knoll & John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop 1988 |
Peter Avai/ Peter Halacuy/ Adam Ficher | Prezi 2008 |
Alan Shoguart | Floppy Disk 1967 |
Steve Russell | First Game (Space War) 1962 |