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Charles Xavier Thomas
Kelly's Google DOCS
Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur best known for designing, patenting and manufacturing the first commercially successful mechanical calculator. The interesting facts about it is For forty years the arithmometer was the only type of mechanical calculator available for sale, also it was a programmable mechanical calculator. -
Jacquard loom punched card
Alana's Google DOCS
It is basically like the storage room. It stores information from the computer. Punch card makes our lives easier in many different ways. It was very important in the olden days because it helped store data. These cards were important to our lives because without punch cards, the computer would not be able to function properly. They are inputs, hardwares, and storage device. -
Chester Carlson's “Xerox Machine”
Muskaan's Google DOCS
“Chester Floyd Carlson (February 8, 1906 – September 19, 1968) was an American physicist, inventor, and patent attorney born in Seattle,Washington.He is best known for having invented the process of electrophotography, which produced a dry copy rather than a wet copy, as was produced by themimeograph process. Carlson's process was subsequently renamed xerography. -
Transistors
Anavat's Google DOCSThe transistor is a semiconductor device that is used to switch electronic signals and power. It started to develop in the 1950’s and its still the building block for electronics today. A voltage or current will be applied to one of the transistor’s terminals. It’s main purpose in the computer is to amplifying the signal. It is classified under the the processing category. It is still used today but in a small scale. The transistor was a lot better than its predecessor, the vacuum tube. It is -
Tim Berners-Lee
Sharon's Google DOCS
Tim Berners-Lee is British computer scientist. His full name is Timothy John Berners-Lee He is known as an inventor of World Wide Web(www.). He was born at 8 June 1955 in London, and now he is 58 years old. His famous invented, World Wide Web(or what we call the web) was developed between March 1989 to December 1990. While Tim Berners-Lee was invented the web, he’s worke -
Integrated Circuit:The invention of Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce
Jaisa's Google DOCS
The Integrated Circuit was first invented on March 24, 1959. It is one of the most important devices to be ever invented. Society wouldn’t have personal computers or electronics without it. It is said to be the invention that changed everything. This microchip started out as just being a simple device. -
Douglas Engelbert
Sami's Google DOCS
What is the mouse? The mouse is an input device which is used to move the cursor around in the screen. The mouse is also known as a pointer. It is a hardware. The mouse was invented by an American inventor named Douglas Engelbart. He worked with Bill English. They wanted a more efficient way to interact with the computer screen. They invented the first mouse in 1964. -
Seymour Rubenstein & Rob Barnaby - WordStar Software
Tina's Google DOCS
WordStar is a word processor application. It was released in 1979 by Micropro International. WordStar was the first commercially successful word processing software program that is produced for the microcomputers, and it is also the best selling software program of the early eighties. Although Seymour Rubenstein was the principal owner of the company. -
Apple Lisa Computer
Neena's Google DOCS
The Apple Lisa Computer or the Lisa was designed by Apple computer, Inc. in 19 January 1983. It was the first personal computer to allow users to interact with electronic devices through graphical icons. The development of the Lisa began in 1978. The Lisa was more advanced than the Macintosh. Steve Jobs joined the Macintosh project after being kicked out of the Lisa project. T -
MS-DOS Computer Operating System
Fiat's Google DOCSMS-DOS short for Microsoft Disk Operating System) is an operating system for personal computer It was the most commonly used member of the DOS family of operating systems, and was the main operating system for IBM PC compatitble personal computers during the 1980s to the mid-1990s, until it was gradually superseded by operating systems offering agraphical user interface (GUI), The operating system acts as an intermediary between programs and the computer hardware.
