Early Information Processing In Britain
Babbage's first math machine
What is the Difference Engine?
The problem proposed by mathemetician David Hilbert
What is the Entscheidungsproblem?
The intervals between US censuses
What is ten years?
The layout for virtually all English Keyboards
What is QWERTY
German engineer who began to develop electromechanical computers
Who is Konrad Zues?
Babbage's second math machine
What is the Analytical Machine
a theoretical model of computing, described by English mathematician Alan Turing in 1936
What is the Turing Machine?
The time period when the US began to industrialize
What is post-Civil War?
Inventor of the first practical typewriter
Who is Christopher Lantham Sholes?
Zuse's engineering major
What is civil engineering?
The government that gave Babbage money for the Difference Engine
What is British?
Navigational tables gave positions of these three objects on any given day
What are the moon, sun, and stars?
The novelty musical instrument that inspired Hollerith to create his tabulation machine
What is an organette?
Who is James Ritty?
The first prototype built by Zuse
What is the Z1?
The world's first computer programmer
Who is Ada Lovelace?
Which of the following was NOT a reason Babbage wanted to use machines to do math?
a)Labor cost
b)Human error
c)Speed of printing
d)Typesetting to prepare number for printing
a) Labor cost
This US census took over seven years to process
What is the 1880 census?
Inventor of the adding machine
Who is William S. Burroughs
The type of arithmetic Zuse used in his early calculators
What is binary?
An early forerunner to today's email, fax, or text messages
What is the telegram?
Which was less expensive in the 1860's:
Traditional mail or Telegraphs?
Traditional mail
This US census took two and a half years to tabulate
What is the 1890 census?
Chicago inventor of the Comptometer
Who is Dorr E. Felt?
The type of arithmetic most calculators in the 1930s used
What is decimal?
The original purpose of running electric cables along railroad tracks
The two mathematicians that came to the conclusion that proofs cannot be automated
Who are Alonzo Church and Alan Turing?
The director of the 1890 census who accepted a proposal from Herman Hollerith to record demographic information
Who is Robert Porter?
This company produced document storage and retrieval systems before merging into Remington Rand
What is the Rand Kardex Company?
University Zuse graduated from in 1935
What is the Technical College of Berlin-Charlottenburg?
The calculation the Difference Engine was created to perform
What is differentiation
The process Adam Smith gave as an example for why multiple, less skilled laborers were more efficient than master craftmen
What is manufacturing pins?
The material Hollerith used to take census data
What is cardstock?
The manufacturer who first produced the practical typewriter
Who is Philo Remington?
Father of Ada Lovlace
Lord Byron
The three aspects of the Turing Machine that modern computers also have
What are Memory, Programmability, and Conditional Branching?
The number of springs in Hollerith's tabulating machine
What is 288?
This is what differentiated the adding machine from the Comptometer
The algorithm for computing a series of numbers Lovelace described in her comments on the report of Babbage's Analytical Engine
What are Bernoulli numbers?
The method of sending and receiving telegraphs
What are electric pulses?
Pennsylvania businessman who funded the invention of the first practical typewriter
Who is James Densmore?
Word
an early electronic computer Turing helped design
What is ACE?
A computer created to solve systems of linear equations
What is the Anatosoff-Berry Computer?
Project leader for the French effort to produce books of logarithmic tables, used a process called 'method of differences
Who was Gaspard de Prony?
electromechanical machines developed to assist in breaking German codes during WWII
What are bombes?
The dimensions and weight of the Harvard Mark I
Problems with Babbage's first prototype of the Difference Machine
What are not fully functional and couldn't print?
MIT engineer who was the creator of the Differential Analyzer
Who is Vannevar Bush?
What is 1833?
The sound that the Harvard Mark 1's operation was compared to
What is a room full of people knitting?
Bonus Non-Curriculum Question: Why is Polaris(The North Star) useful for navigation?
For those in the norther hemisphere, the altitude of Polaris corresponds to the latitude of the observer.