HISTORY Flashcards
(35 cards)
Invents the Napier’s bones, a manual computing invention for calculating number(1-9)
John Napier
This man made the first mechanical computer using a mechanics called toothed wheels(computer clock)
Wilhelm Shickard
Invented daw the barometer or the pascaline calculator to help him calculate taxes
Blaise Pascal
This guy perfected the binary system
Gottfried Leibniz
used a perforated paper loop in a weaving war to reproduce a template on a fabric
Basile Bouchon
Bouchon’s collaborator
Jean Baptiste Falcon
conducts his lighting kite experiment
Ben Franklin
invented the firsy semi automatic using the concept of punching cards to weave patterns onto a canvas
Joseph Marie Jacquard
Created the electric dynamite
Michael Faraday
Designed the analytical engine
Charles Babage
Created the boolean algebra
George boole
Introduced the Boolean Algebra to US
Charles Sanders Pierce
Invented the lightbulb
Thomas Edison and Joseph Swan
The first power generator was opened on _________
Pearl Street, Lower Manhattan in Newyork
Created the mechanical tabs used to calculate the census of the US
Herman Hollerith
IBM stands for
International Business Machine
created the Turing machine, invents cars named after him
Alan Turing
Created the first digital electronic computer with help from Clifford Berry, he won the case against EINAC so pretty much he was the first one
John V. Atanasoff
_______The first fully programmable digital computer invented by_______ to crack the Lorenz Code in WW2
The British Colossus Computer, Tommy Flower
ENIAC stands for
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
reminder that ENIAC was the first general purpose PC that could be programmed to solve different kind of problems.
Although John V Anatasoff won the case of the first digital ever computer
The first pc made with the binary system
Baby
The first commercial data processing machine
UNIVAC1
Who founded CDC, (tip. He is the father of supercomputers also)
Seymour Clay the father and William Norris
