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Abacus
First ever calculator -
Blaise Pascal
Blaise Pascal was born in France and was the first to invent the world's first calculating machine using 8 gears and wheels -
Pascaline
Made by Blaise Pascal this device was the worlds first calculating machine which ran on eight gears and wheels -
Gottfried Wilhem Leibniz
Gottfried was a Philosopher and Mathematician and invented a machine called the Stepped Reckoner -
Charles Babbage
Born in England, Charles was a crazy man and invented a lot of machines like the difference machine -
Augusta Ada Lovelace
Augusta was born in England and invented her own devices using her ideas from her fathers poems -
Difference Machine
Made by Charles Babbage it had to be generated in order to work and was complicated -
Herman Hollerith
Herman was born of a German immigrant and became a Teacher and Employee -
Stepped Reckoner
The machine was made by Gottfried Leibniz and was designed as a calculator -
Tommy Flowers
Born in England he was an Engineer and helped Turing finish his inventions in WWII -
Alan M. Turing
Alan was born in England and helped the British decipher codes during WWII but died because he was gay -
Vacuum Tube
Made in the 40s this device controls electrical currents inside a special glass cylinder -
Transistor
Made in the 50s this device is the size of someone's thumb and can switch electrical signals -
Steve Wozniak
Steve was an engineer and was one of the founders of the Apple company -
Tim Berners Lee
Tim is the director of the World Wide Web and now works with the UK government -
Bill Gates
Bill Gates was arrested for not paying parking tickets and driving without a license -
Microprocessor
Started in the 70s until today and is similar to an IC -
Mainframe
Used in the persent day this machine stores large amounts of data -
5th Generation Computers
New high tech mini data bases
