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Invention/Date
Blaise Pascal   Mechanical Calculating device called Pascaline. 1642  
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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz   Stepped Reckoner. 1670  
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Charles Babbage   Analytical Engine . 1842  
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Herman Hollerith   Tabulating machine. 1890  
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John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry   Atanasoff-Berry Computer. 1939  
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Howard H. Aiken   Mark 1. 1944  
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John Mauchly & J.Presper Eckert   ENIAC . 1946  
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Alan Turing   Enigma, late 30's/40's  
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Jon von Neumann   EDVAC-electronic discrete variable electronic automatic computer.  
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William Shockley,John Bardeen & Walter Brittain   Transistor 1947  
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Grace Murray Hopper   COBOL(Common Business Oriented Language). 1959  
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Jack Kilby   1st integrated circuit (1958)/ 1st handheld calculator  
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William Gates III   Microsoft . 1975  
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Paul Allen   Co-founder of Microsoft  
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Thomas Knoll & John Knoll   Adobe Photoshop 1988  
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Peter Arvai, Peter Halacsy & Adam Fischer   Prezi. 2008  
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Alan F. Shugart   Floppy Disc. 1967  
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Steven Russel   First computer game "Space War". 1962  
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