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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Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646 - 1716) | Invented the Stepped Reckoner in 1670. |
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Charles Babbage (1792 - 1871) | Invented the Analytical Engine - used to store information in 1842 |
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Herman Hollerith (1860 - 1929) | Invented the Tabulating Machine in 1890 |
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John Atanasoff (1903- 1995) Clifford Berry (1918 - 1963) | Invented the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)(1939) |
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Mark 1 (1944) | ASCC ( Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator) |
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John Mauchly (1907-1980) J. Presper Eckert (1919- 1995) | ENIAC ( Electronic Numerical Integration and Calculator) (1946) |
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Alan Turning (1912 - 1954) | Invented the Turing Machine also known as the "Enigma' in the 30's and 40's |
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Jon von Neumann (1903 - 1957) | Built the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer w/ Mauchly and Eckert in 1947 |
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William Shockley John Bardeen Walter Brattain | Invented the Transistor in 1947 |
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Grace Murray Hopper ( 1906 - 1992) | Designed COBOL (Common Business Oriented Language) |
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Jack Kilby (1923 - 2005) | Developed the first integrated Circut in 1958. |
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William Gates III (10/28/1951) | Founder of Microsoft |
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Thomas Knoll John Knoll | Created Adobe Photoshop in 1988 |
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Peter Arvai | Invented Prezi with two other people. Attended the Royal Institute |
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Steve Russel | Created the first computer game |
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Blaise Pacal (1623 - 1662) | Invented the mechanical calculating device called Pascaline - 1642 |
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