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Computer History
Time Line
| Inventor | Invention/Date |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | Pascaline-1642 |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | The Stepped Reckoner-1670 |
| Charles Babbage | Analytical Engine-calculating machine-1842 |
| Herman Hollerith | Tabulating Machine-1890 |
| John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry | Atansoff-Berry Computer (ABC)-1939 |
| Mark 1 | ASCC (Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator)-1944 |
| John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator)-1946 |
| Alan Turing | The "Enigma"-late 30's and 40's |
| Jon von Neumann | EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer)-1947 |
| Wiliam Shockley | Transistor-1947 |
| Grace Murray Hopper | COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language)-1961 |
| Jack Kilby | 1st Integrated Circuit-1958 |
| William Gates III (founder) | Microsoft Corporation-1975 |
| Paul Allen (co-founder) | Microsoft Corporation-1975 |
| Thomas Knoll and John Knoll | Adobe Photoshop-1988 |
| Alan Shugert | Floppy Disk-1967 |
| Steve Russel | 1st Computer game-1962 |
| Peter Arvai and Peter Halacsy and Adam Fischer | Prezi-2009 |