Inventors
Came of with the idea of theDifference Machine
Railway companies ran these along tracks in the 1860's
electric cables
This woman is considered to be the world's first programmer
Ada Lovelace
The Banker's Clearing House was located in
London
In 1819, this country had the largest navy.
Great Britain
This mathematician proposed the Entscheidungsproblem
David Hilbert
The cash register solved this problem
cashier theft
The Differential Analyzer was designed to solve these kind of problems
Differential Equations
During WW2, Alan Turing worked in this military field
codebreaking
The US census was first performed in this year.
1790
This inventor created the comptometer
Door E. Felt
This term refers to machines that use electricity to power their gears
electromechanical
This type of programming instruction allows computers to choose between multiple outcomes depending on responses to earlier statements.
Conditional Branching
The Abeerdeen Proving Grounds is located in this state
Maryland
The ENIAC was completed in this year
1945
Invented the differential analyzer
Vannevar Bush
This machine was the first electronic computer
ENIAC
This term refers to math using 0-9.
Decimal arithmetic
This company accepted Howard Eiken's proposal for a new calculating machine
IBM
In 1940 Bell labs created this piece of hardware to replace vaccuum tubes
transistors
Lead engineer of the ENIAC
J. Presper Eckert
by the 1940s, these two household devices used vaccuum tubes.
radios and TVs
The IBM 702 was marketed for
Business data processing
This school hosted the unveiling ceremony for the ENIAC in 1946
The University of Pennsylvania
Many computers including the IBM 650 used drum storage during this decade.
1950s