F1. INFORMATION AGE

Question 1

before 1700s

Answer 1

Pre-industrial age

Question 2

cave paintings

Answer 2

3500 BC

Question 3

clay tablets

Answer 3

2400 BC

Question 4

1700s-1930s

Answer 4

industrial age

Question 5

powerloom

Answer 5

1786
edmund cartwright

Question 6

typewriter
qwerty keyboard

Answer 6

1874
christopher sholes
samuel soule
carlos glidden

Question 7

telephone

Answer 7

1876

Question 8

American Recording Electro-Magnetic Telegraph invented in?

Answer 8

1837

Question 9

telegraph

Answer 9

1830s-1840s
samuel morse

Question 10

“What hath God wrought?”

Answer 10

May 24, 1844

Question 11

punchcards/ IBM

Answer 11

late 1800s
herman hollerith

Question 12

mechanical calculator

Answer 12

1642
blaise pascal

Question 13

babbage engine

difference engine

Answer 13

charles babbage
1882 - difference engine

1847-1849 first invented computer

Question 14

1930s-1980s

Answer 14

electronic age

Question 15

1st programmable digital computer

Unintended by-product of the allied intelligence gathering process during the WW2.

Answer 15

colossus
tommy flowers

Question 16

• World’s first digital computer.
• Massive machine.
• World’s first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer.

Answer 16

ENIAC

Question 17

1st electronic digital computer

Answer 17

ATANASOFF-BERRY COMPUTER
iowa state college
1937-1942

Question 18

1st electromechanical computer

Answer 18

mark-1
howard aiken
1937

Question 19

transistor

JWW

Answer 19

1947
john bardeen
walter brattain
william shockley

Question 20

first transistor radio

Answer 20

regency tr-1

Question 21

television

Answer 21

1941
invented by Philo Farnsworth Sept. 7, 1927

Question 22

most important invention of the 20th century
IC/microchip

Answer 22

1958
Jack Kilby

Question 23

microprocessor

Answer 23

federico fraggin
marcian hoff
stanley mazor
masatoshi shima

Question 24

UNIVAC I

invented by inventors of ENIAC

Answer 24

j. presper eckert
john mauchly

Question 25

1st net implement TCP/IP protocol suite ARPA of the US dept. of defense

Answer 25

ARPANET

Question 26

floppy disk

Answer 26

IBM engineers alan shugart

Question 27

MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY

Answer 27

mid-late 1968 demonstrated May 24,1972

Question 28

1st micro computer ALTAIR 8800

Answer 28

MITS - micro instrumentation & telemetry system Ed Roberts

Question 29

ATARI

Answer 29

1972 Syzygo co. nolan bushnell ted dabney