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Computer History
Timeline
| Inventor | Invention / Date |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | Pascaline - 1642 |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Stepped Reckoner - 1670 |
| Charles Baggage | 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 Sequence Controlled Calculator) - 1944 |
| John Mauchly / J. Presper Eckert | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator) - 1946 |
| Alan Turing | Turing Machine / The Enigma - late 1930's and 1940's |
| Jon 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 Russell | Space Wars - 1962 |
| Alan F. Shugart | FDD (Floppy Disk Drive) - 1967 |
| William Gates III / Paul Allen | Microsoft Corporation - 1975 |
| Thomas Knoll / John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop - 1988 |
| Peter Arvai / Peter Halacsy / Adam Somlai | Prezi - 2009 |
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