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F1. INFORMATION AGE Flashcards

1
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before 1700s

A

Pre-industrial age

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2
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cave paintings

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3500 BC

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3
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clay tablets

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2400 BC

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4
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1700s-1930s

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industrial age

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5
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powerloom

A

1786
edmund cartwright

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6
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typewriter
qwerty keyboard

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1874
christopher sholes
samuel soule
carlos glidden

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7
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telephone

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1876

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8
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American Recording Electro-Magnetic Telegraph invented in?

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1837

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9
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telegraph

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1830s-1840s
samuel morse

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10
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“What hath God wrought?”

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May 24, 1844

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11
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punchcards/ IBM

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late 1800s
herman hollerith

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12
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mechanical calculator

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1642
blaise pascal

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13
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babbage engine

difference engine

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charles babbage
1882 - difference engine

1847-1849 first invented computer

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14
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1930s-1980s

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electronic age

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15
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1st programmable digital computer

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

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colossus
tommy flowers

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16
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  • World’s first digital computer.
  • Massive machine.
  • World’s first large-scale electronic general-purpose digital computer.
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ENIAC

17
Q

1st electronic digital computer

A

ATANASOFF-BERRY COMPUTER
iowa state college
1937-1942

18
Q

1st electromechanical computer

A

mark-1
howard aiken
1937

19
Q

transistor

JWW

A

1947
john bardeen
walter brattain
william shockley

20
Q

first transistor radio

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regency tr-1

21
Q

television

A

1941
invented by Philo Farnsworth Sept. 7, 1927

22
Q

most important invention of the 20th century
IC/microchip

A

1958
Jack Kilby

23
Q

microprocessor

A

federico fraggin
marcian hoff
stanley mazor
masatoshi shima

24
Q

UNIVAC I

invented by inventors of ENIAC

A

j. presper eckert
john mauchly

25
Q

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

A

ARPANET

26
Q

floppy disk

A

IBM engineers
alan shugart

27
Q

MAGNAVOX ODYSSEY

A

mid-late 1968
demonstrated May 24,1972

28
Q

1st micro computer
ALTAIR 8800

A

MITS - micro instrumentation & telemetry system
Ed Roberts

29
Q

ATARI

A

1972
Syzygo co.
nolan bushnell
ted dabney

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