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Ancient History
1700s - 1800s
1800s - 1900s
1930s - 1940s
1940s - 1950s
100
Abacus
What has movable beads on a wire board and performs mathematical operations.?
100
1714
What year was the typewriter patented?
100
Charles Babbage
Who is the father of the modern computer?
100
Alan Turing
Who created the concepts of computer input and output?
100
vacuum tube
What device acts like an amplifier and a switch?
200
Leonardo Da Vinci
Who invented the world's first mechanical calculator in 1500?
200
Ada Byron
Who wrote the first ISO standardized programming language?
200
1906
What year did Lee De Forest improve the vacuum tube to create the triode?
200
Binary Code
What type of code did Claude Shannon invent?
200
UNIVAC I
What computer was built in 1947 to separate input and output systems?
300
Henry Mill
Who patented the typewriter?
300
Punch Cards
What is the computer output that controlled weaving patterns?
300
Hermann Hollerith
Who was asked to design a better way to handle the US Census?
300
Colossus Computer
What is device that cracked the German code during WWII?
300
John Von Neumann
Who was a consultant on the Manhattan Project and described the elements of a stored computer program?
400
Adding Machine
Blaise Pascal invented this device?
400
Charles Babbage
Who is the inventor that calculated and printed mathematical tables on a Difference Engine?
400
diode
What device picks out radio waves?
400
Harvard Mark I
What was the first large scale digital computer?
400
EDSAC
What computer handled the first stored computer program?
500
Counting devices in 1440 AD
Tally Sticks were used as?
500
Ada Byron
Who predicted that Charles Babbage's analytical engine could be used to compose music and produce graphics?
500
Joseph Thomson
Who showed that inside vacuum tubes there were streams of electrons giving off cathode rays?
500
ENIAC
Which computer had 18,000 glowing vacuum tubes and took up 1800 square feet?
500
John Mauchly and Preper Eckert
Which two men formed their own computer company to construct the first dual processor computer?