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Abacus
Name: Abacus
Year: 1387 AD
Info: The first mathematical computing machine -
Napier's Rods
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Blaise Pascal
Name: Blaise Pascal
Year: 1623-1662
Job: Inventor and writer
Info: Invented the first calculator -
Pascaline
Name: Pascaline
Year: 1642
Info: Pascal's calulator -
Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Name: Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz
Year: 1646-1716
Job: Alchemist
Info: Invented a better calculator than Pascal -
Step Reconer
Name: Step Reconer
Year: 1673
Info: The first calculator to perform all four arithmetic operations -
Charles Babbage
Name: Charles Babbage
Year: 1791-1817
Job: Mechanical Engineer
Info: Conidered "father of the computer" -
Augusta ada Lovelace
Name: Augusta ada Lovelace
Year: 1815-1852
Place: London
Info: English mathematician and writer -
Difference Engine
Name: Difference Engine
Year: 1822
Info: An automatic calculator designed to tabulate polynomial functions -
Herman Hollerith
Name: Herman Hollerith
Year: 1860-1929
Place: Buffalo, New York
Info: He developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cars ro rapidly tabulate statistics from million pieces of data -
Vacuum Tubes
Name: Vacuum Tubes
Year: 1904
Info: A device controling elctric current thorugh a vacuum sealed container. -
Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers
Name: Thomas "Tommy" Harold Flowers
Year: 1905-1998
Place: Poplar, London
Info: Invented the worlds first programmable electronic computer to help solve the encypted German messages -
Alan Mathison Turing
Name: Alan Mathieson Turing
Year: 1912-1954
Place: United Kingdom
Info: A British matematician, logician, cryptanalyst, and computer scientist -
Steve Wozniak
Name: Steve Wozniak
Year: 1950
Place: San Jose, California, USA
Info: Computer engineer and programmer who founded apple computer with Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne. -
IBM Mainframe
Name: IBM Mainframe
Year: 1952
Info: Large computer systems. -
Computer Transistor
Name: Computer Transistor
Year: 1953
Info: The "first generation" of electronic computer. -
William Henry "Bill" Gates III
Name: William Henry "Bill" Gates III
Year: 1955
Place: Seatle, Washington, USA
Info: The former chief executive and current chairman of Microsoft. -
Timothy John Berners Lee
Name: Timothy John Berners Lee
Year: 1955
Place: London, England
Info: Inventor of the World Wide Web -
Integrated Circuit
Name: Integrated Circuit
Year: 1958
Info: Also reffered as IC, chip or michrochip -
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