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Date
Blaise Pascal   Pascaline 1642  
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz   Stepped Reckoner 1670  
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Charles Babbage   Analytical Engine-calculating machine that use punched cards to store information in 1842  
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Herman Hollerith   Invented the tabulating machine in 1890  
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John Atanasoff Clifford Berry   Atanasoff-Berry computer 1939  
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Mark 1   Automatic Sequence Controlled calculator 1944  
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John Mauchly J. Presper Eckert   Worked on Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator in 1946  
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Alan Turing   Enigma, idea of universal machine  
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Jon von Neumann   Build the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer with Mauchly and Eckert in1947 Inspired the construction of Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator in 1949  
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Transistor   Invented in 1947 by William Shockley, john Bardeen and Walter Brittain. replaced many tube, make computer smaller  
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Grace Murray Hopper   Common Business Oriented Language 1st programmer of the mark 1  
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Jack Kilby 1923-2005   Developed the first integrated Circuit in 1958 Invented the first hand hold calculator  
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William Gates III   Founder of the Microsoft Corporation Start Microsoft company in 1975 with Paul Allen  
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Paul Allen   Co-founder of the Microsoft corporation owner of the Portland Trail Blazers  
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Thomas Knoll John Knoll   Adobe Photoshop 1988  
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