about computer!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
By Chris Lee
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Jan 1, 1387
abacus
Info:calculating tool used primarily in parts of Asia for performing arithmetic processes -
Blaise Pascal
year 19 June-19 August 1662
place:France
job:mathematics genius
info:Invented an early calculator called Pascaline. -
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Computer history
this is computer history -
Pascaline
Name:Pascaline
Year:1642
Info: The Pascaline, one of the earliest mechanical devices that performed addition and subtraction. Blaise Pascal invented it. Name:Pascaline
Year:1642
Info: The Pascaline, one of the earliest mechanical devices that performed addition and subtraction. Blaise Pascal invented it. -
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Year:july 1,1646-November 14, 1716
place:german
job:Mathematician and Philosopher
Info:Invented calculus and binary Arithmetics. The Step Reckoner was a digital mechanical calculator made by him. -
Step Reckoner
Name:Step Reckoner
Year:1694
Info: It was the first calculator that could perform all four arithmetic operations: addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invented it. -
Charles Babbage
year=26 12 1791-18 october 1871
place England
job=English mathematician
info grandfather of computer. -
Augusta Ada lovelace
Name:Augusta Ada Lovelace
Year:10 December 1815-27 November
1852
Place:England
Job: Mathematician
Info: She known for her work on Charles Babbage’s early mechanical general-purpose computer. She is sometimes as the first computer programmer. -
Herman Hollerith
Year:29 February 1860-17 November
1929
Place:America
Job: Statistician
Info:He developed the mechanical tabulator and based on punched cards. He was the founder of IBM.( Interational Business Machine Corporation) -
Tommy Flowers
Name:Tommy Flowers
Year:22 December 1905-28 October-1988
Place: England
Job: Engineer
Info: Flowers designed Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer. -
Alan Mathison Turing
Name:Alan Mathison Turing
Year:23 June 1912-7 June 1954
Place:UK
Job: Mathematician, Computer Scientist
Info: He was highly influential in the development of computer science. He became a student in King’s College, Cambridge. -
vacuum tube
Info:a vacuum tube, electron tube,
thermionic valve,tube,or valve is a device container. The container is often thin transparent glass in a roughly cylindrical shape. -
Steve Wozniak
Name:Steve Wozniak
Year:11 August 1950
Place:America
Job:computer programmer
Info:He worked with Steve Jobs
in Apple. -
Transistors
Info:A transistor is a semiconductor
device used to amplify and switch electronic signals and electrical power. -
sir Timothy John "Tim" Berners-Lee
Place:England
Job:Computer Scientist
Info: Tim invented the World Wide Web -
William Henry“Bill”Gates
Name:William Henry“Bill”Gates
Year:October 28 1955
Place:America
Job:business magnate philanthropist
Info: The co- founder and Chairman of Microsoft. He is consistently ranked among the world’s wealthiest people. -
integrated circuit
Info:integrated circuit is an electronic circuit manufactured by lithography, or the patterned diffusion of trace elements into the surface of a thin substrate of semiconductor material -
microprocessor
this is digital data also cpu. -
IBM personal computer
info:this is original computer