computer history

Question 1

-pascaline
-adding machine

Answer 1

blaise pascal

Question 2

adding machine or pascaline is originally called

Answer 2

NUMERICAL WHEEL CALCULATOR

Question 3

stepped reckoner- supposed to add, subtract, multiply divife and calculate square roots

Answer 3

Gottfried Wilhelm Von Leibniz

Question 4

persuaded british government to finance his design. called “difference engine” can calculate 20tg place 4 digits per minute
-analytical engine

Answer 4

CHARLES BABBAGE

Question 5

punch card

Answer 5

joseph jacquard

Question 6

punch card

Answer 6

joseph jacquard

Question 7

1833 used to perform a variety of calculations by ff set of instruction

Answer 7

analytical engine

Question 8

1833 used to perform a variety of calculations by ff set of instruction

Answer 8

analytical engine

Question 9

done every 10 years
process done by hand in 19th century

Answer 9

US census

Question 10

founder of IBM and invented tabulating machine

Answer 10

Herman Hollerith

Question 11

founder of IBM and invented tabulating machine

Answer 11

Herman Hollerith

Question 12

father of modern computer

Answer 12

charles babbage

Question 13

used rather than mechanical gears

Answer 13

tabulating machine

Question 14

transistor

Answer 14

john bardeen
walter brattain
william shockley