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Charles Babbage
Went to Trinity College hecking accuracy of calculations made for the royal astronomical society & kept finding errors -
British Government
They provided Charles with start up funds to finish his project the differnce engine. -
His struggle
Charles spent the money and more from his own pocket and only little was put together. -
Finally
Charles got enough parts to fix the engine and it worked. -
Last of Charles
The orchestra band that gave Charles a hard time and visa vera found out he was ill and surrounded his house and serenated him til he died. -
Census Beauro
Tghe census beauro was still hand tallying the data from the 1880 census the beauro looked for any method that could speed up the counting of the 1890 census. -
punch cards
The punch cards were finally put to work. -
Hollereth
He sold his share in the machine company for over 1 million dollars. -
IBM
Watson renamed it International Business Machine also known as IBM. -
The rise of IBM
America limpted out of the great depression & IBM grew with success. -
Critical Shortage
There was a critical shortage of a surprising compenent of the war machine - firing tables for artilery tables -
Recognizing the program machine
Program machine was made & recognized. -
Popular Electronics
cover of the Popular Electronics announced the debut of the Altair 8800 ( the 1st personal computer). -
Jobs & Wozniak
They officially formed the Apple Computer Company. -
Osborne Company
This company introduced the industry 1st portable comp. -
Mosaic
the web browser Mosaic was introduced. -
Salman Khan
He was an investment analyst in Boston when he began ti post videos to youtube to teach algebra.Today his non-profit named Khan Academy contains over 2,200 vids and over a million students a month use the site. -
Computer Games
More than 273 million units of computer games were sold. -
Increasing unrest
The goverment responded to the increasing unrest online by turning off the internet for the entire country.