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Computer History
Timeline
| Inventor | Invention/Date |
|---|---|
| Blaise Pascal | Pascaline/1642 |
| Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz | Stepped Reckoner/1670 |
| Charles Babbage | Engine-calculating Machine/1842 |
| Herman Hollerith | tabulating machine/1890 |
| John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry | Atanasoff-berry computer(ABC)/1939 |
| Howard H. Aiken | Mark 1/1944 |
| John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert | Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator(ENIAC)/1946 |
| Alan Turing | Enigma/Late 1930 and 1940 |
| Jon von Neumann | Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer(EDVAC)/1947 Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Computer(EDSAC)/1949 |
| William Shockley, John Bardeen, and Walter Brittian | Transistor/1947 |
| Grace Murray Hopper | Common Business Oriented Language(COBOL)1959 |
| Jack Kilby | 1st integrated Circuit and the 1st hand held calculator/1958 |
| William Gates III | Microsoft/1975 |
| Paul Allen |