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Timeline

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Invention
Blaise Pascal   Mechanical calculating device Pascaline 1642  
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz   Stepped Reckoner 1670  
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Charles Babbage   Analytical Engine-calculating machine 1842  
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Herman Hollerith   Tabulating machine 1890  
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John Atanasoff Clifford Berry   Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) (1939)  
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John Mauchly J. Presper Eckert   ENIAC ( Electrical Numerical Integration and Calculator) 1946  
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Alan Turing   The Enigma late 30's and 40's  
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Jon von Neumann   EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer) 1947  
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brittain.   Transistor 1947  
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Grace Murray Hopper   Designed COBOL ( Common Business Oriented Language)  
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Jack Kilby   Developed the 1st integrated Circuit in 1958. Invented the 1st hand held calculator.  
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William Gates III   Founder of Microsoft Corporation Started Microsoft company in 1975 with Paul Allen  
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Paul Allen   Co-founder of Microsoft Corporation Owner of Portland Trail Blazers  
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Thomas Knoll John Knoll   Adobe Photoshop 1988  
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