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What university was Vannevar Bush a professor at?

MIT

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British clearinghouses in the 1830s worked in service of...?

Banks

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What prompted the invention of telegraphs?

Railroad cables ( to know what tracks are clear and to reduce collisions)

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Konrad Zuse created many early computers in his parent's living room in...

the 1930s

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How fast was a telegram delivered

a matter of hours

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Following WWII, Alan Turing is best known for his contributions to..?

Theoretical computer science

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What was the first long distance telegraph?

"WHAT HATH GOD WROUGHT"

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The devices Turing and team developed to de-code German messages

Bombes

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When was the first census conducted?

1790

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How long did it take the Hollerith machine to calculate census data?

2.5 years

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Who's 'method of differences' was Charles Babbage inspired by?

Gaspard de Prony

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Where did Alan Turing and other codebreakers work during WWII?

Bletchley Park

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What machine, designed by Charles Babbage, was theorized but never made?

The Analytical Engine

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When was the Wealth of Nations published?

1776

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What did the C-T-R (computing, Tabulating, Recording) company change its name to?

IBM

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Ada Lovelace is considered to be the first...?

Computer Programmer

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What object did Alan Turing use in a metaphor to respond to the Entscheidungsproblem?

Tape

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What instrument inspired the Hollerith machine?

Organette

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The manufacturer Philo Remington was persuaded to make the first commercial typewriters in the...

1870s

400

Early computer that was not mechanical

ABC

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What did David Hilbert seek to do?

To see if every problem has an algorithmic solution

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After the difference engine, how did the British government act towards Charles Babbage

They refused to fund further projects, such as the analytical machine, because his previous projects were incomplete

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Christopher Sholes developed the first practical...

Typewriter

500

In the 1880s, the comptometer was first developed by an inventor living in..

Chicago (by Dorr E. Felt)

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What department did Babbage promote the difference engine to serve the British in?

Navy

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