Computing History 1
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| Invented a machine that used punched cards for data input assisted with the 1890 census | Herman Hollerith
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| This word was originally a job title | computer
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| Wrote the first computer program | Ada Byron
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| Early Device to assist with mathematical calculations that consisted of beads and string | abacus
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| Numbers carved on sticks which when crossed could actually multiply | Napier's Bones
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| Drew plans for a sophisticated calculating machine called the difference engine, which wasn’t actually built because of the lack of technology to make the parts. | Charles Babbage
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| Four-function calculator built by Leibniz. (It could add, subtract, multiply, and divide.) | Stepped Reckoner
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| Built a loom that used punched cards to make patterns in fabric. | Jacquard
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| First built in England in 1632 and still in use in the 1960's by the NASA engineers of the Mercury, Gemini, and Apollo programs which landed men on the moon | slide rule
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| Gear-driven one-function calculator (it could only add). Has a computer language named after him. | Pascaline
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| Built a company, the Tabulating Machine Company which, after a few buyouts eventually became International Bussiness Machines, known today as IBM. IBM grew rapidly and punched cards became ubiquitous. | Hollerith's
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| Charles Bobbage was proposing a steam driven caculating machine in size of a room which was called | Difference Engine
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| Consisted of a card reader which sensed the holes in the cards, a gear driven mechanism which could count and a large wall of a dial indicators to display the results of the counts.. | Hollerith Desk
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| Earned her spot in history as the first computer programmer.. | Ada Byron
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| Gottfried Wihelm Leibniz (co-inventor with Newtonof calculus) manage to build a four-function (addition, subtraction,multiplication, and division) calculator that he called | The Stepped Reckoner
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| His device, large as a house and powered by 6 stem engines, would be more general purpose in nature because it would be programmable, thanks to the punched card technology Jacquard | Babbage
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| Invented a power loom that could base its weave (and hence the design on fabric) upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden careds, held together in row by rope. | Jacquard
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| Invented the Pascaline as an aid for his father who was a tax collector | Blaise Pascal
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