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Blaise Pascal
Name: Blaise PascalYear: 1623-1662Place: FranceJob: Mathematics Genius Info: He invented the first calculating machine. Using eight rotating gears and wheels, the Pascaline performs addition and subtraction only. -
Pascaline
Name: pascaline
Year: 1642
Info: Blaise Pascal invented Pascaline. I t could only add and subtract directly, but to multiply or divide, a process had to be done a several times. -
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Name: Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
Year: 1646-1716Place: GermanyJob: Philosopher, historian and scientistInfo: Developed a calculator even better than Pascaline. This one can add, subtract, multiply, and divide. -
Leibniz Wheel
Name: Leibniz Wheel
Year: 1673
Info: It was invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. This was better than Pascaline Calculator. It could add, subtract, multiply, and divide. -
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Charles Babbage
Name: Charles Babbage
Year: 1792-1871
Place: London, EnglandJob: Inventor and MathematicianInfo: He begins work on his Difference Engine, a calculating machine that performs mathematical functions to six decimal places. He is also known as the grandfather of computing. -
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Augusta Ada Lovelace
Name: Augusta Ada Lovelace
Year: 1815-1852
Place: London, England
Job: a splendid mathematician
Info: She created a program for the Analytical Engine. She was the FIRST programmer. -
Analytical Engine
Name: Analytical EngineYear: 1833Info: It has 5 parts - the mill/calculating unit; the store(memory); an input device; a control section; and a printer. The input and the control section are fed by punched cards. -
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Herman Hollerith
Name: Herman Hollerith
Year: 1860-1929
Place: USA
Job: engineer and scientist
Info: Surprisingly, he did not get the idea from the work of Babbage, but rather from watching a train conductor punch tickets.
In 1896 Hollerith founded the Tabulating Machine Company.
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first Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone almost at the same time with Antonio Mucci. Sadly, Bell had more money so he paid for the patent first, and -
Vacuum Tube
Name: vacuum tube
Year: 1900’s
Info: This circuit board block is one for hundreds of blocks that held the 4000 vacuum tubes for IBM’s Model 701, its first computer intended for scientific work. -
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Tommy Flowers
Name: Tommy Flowers
Year: 1905-1998
Place: England
Job: Engineer
Info: Tommy designed Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic computer, to help solve encrypted German messages. -
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Alan M. Turing
Name: Alan M. Turing
Year: 1912-1954
Place: England
Job: Mathematician, philosopher and codebreaker
Info: Helps the British decode secret German messages and predict missile targets.
Founder for Computer Science, mathematician, philosopher and codebreaker. -
First Integrated Circuit
Name: integrated circuit
Year: 1949
Info: Many transistors combined together into a very small space, forming an integrated circuit. -
Mainframe
Name: mainframe
Year: late 1950’s ~ 1970’s
Info: They are computers used primarily by corporate and governmental organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing. -
Transistor
Name: integrated circuit
Year: 1949
Info: Many transistors combined together into a very small space, forming an integrated circuit. -
Steve Wozniak
Name: Steve Wozniak
Year: 1950-present
Place: USA
Job: Engineer and programmer
Info: With his friend, Steve Jobs, he co-founded Apple computers in the mid-70s. -
Tim Berners Lee
Name: Tim Berners Lee
Year: 1955-present
Place: EnglandJob: Physicist, professor and computer scientist
Info: He is the inventor of the World Wide Web(WWW) and is the current president of the WWW foundation. -
Bill Gates
Name: Bill Gates
Year: 1955-present
Place: USA
Job: Nerd
Info: With his friend, Steve Balmer, Bill Gates started up Microsoft in 1975. Bill Gates is now the RICHEST person in the whole world!!! o.O -
Microprocessor
Name: Microprocessors
Year: late 1970 ~ present
Info: This chip is used in electronics such as smart phones, tablets, etc. -
start of Microsoft
Bill Gates and Paul Allen started a computing/programming company named "Microsoft". -
First Super Mario
In 1985, the first Super Mario - Super Mario Bros. - was released and kept improving for the next 27years up until now. -
Samsung Galaxy Note 2
Samsung released the awesome product of theirs - Galaxy Note 2!!! Even Apple iPhone 5 lost against Samsung Galaxy Note 2 in Europe! hahaha -
abacus
Name: abacus
Year: 1000BC to 500BC
Info: This calculator was invented by Egyptians and modified by the Chinese, used to add and subtract by hand.
