WEEK 13

Question 1

printing press was invented by German goldsmith_________

Answer 1

Johannes Gutenberg
around 1440

Question 2

• a device that applies pressure to an inked surface lying on a medium, i.e.,
cloth or paper to transfer the ink
• hand mould printing press led to the creation of metal movable type
• a new branch of media was known as “the press”
• era of mass communication
• permanently reformed the structure of society

Answer 2

Printing Press

Question 3

_____________ were people who compiled actuarial tables and did engineering calculations.

Answer 3

Computers

Question 4

United States mechanized the problem by building the______

Answer 4

Harvard Mark 1

Question 5

British needed mathematicians to crack the German Navy’s _______

Answer 5

Enigma code

Question 6

• an English mathematician
• hired in in 1936 by the British top-secret Government Code
and Cipher School at Bletchley Park to break the Enigma code
• code-breaking works became an industrial process having
12,000 people working three shifts day in and day out, 24/7

Answer 6

• Alan Turing

Question 7

Turing designed ______
• an electromechanical machine
• made the British able to read all daily German Naval Enigma
traffic by searching through the permutations
• saved millions of lives since the invention shortened the war
by as much as two years

Answer 7

Bombe

Question 8

A generation with “electronic brains” was born by
the______^ who wanted their own personal
computers (PCs).

Answer 8

1970s

Question 9

built a simple computer around the
8080 “microprocessor” hooked up to a keyboard and television in 1976

Answer 9

Steve Wozniak

Question 10

__________ called the computer “Apple I “and sold
replicates of this machine to a Silicon Valley shop

Answer 10

STEVE JOBS

Question 11

__________ realized that PCs needed software and
sold his “Microsoft programs”

Answer 11

Bill Gates