Timeline
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
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| Blaise Pascal | invents the the "Pascaline", a mechanical adding machine
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| Gottfried Leibniz | one of the founding fathers of calculus
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| Charles Babbage | designs his first mechanical computer
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| Herman Hollerith | invents a counting machine which increment mechanical counters
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| John Atanasoff | invents ABC which uses binary number system used in computers today
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| Clifford Berry | ASCC large scale automatic digital computer
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| John Mauchly | works on ENIAC
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| J. Presper Eckert | computer that solves mathematic faster
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| Alan Turning | Turning machine The "Enigma"
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| Jon von Neumann | built EDVAC and EDSAC
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| william shockley | invented the Transistor
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| Grace Murray Hopper | designed COBOL, programming language
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| Jack Kilby | 1st hand held calculator
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| Wiliam Gates | founder of microsoft
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| Paul Allen | co founder of microsoft
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| Thomas Knoll and John knoll | creators of adobe photoshop
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