History Of Computer Science

Question 1

The earliest computing device

Answer 1

The five fingers of each hand

Question 2

From what word does the word ‘digital’come from?

Answer 2

Digits or fingers

Question 3

The developer of logarithms

Answer 3

John Napier in 1614

Question 4

1963’s Calculating Clock inventor

Answer 4

Wilhelm Schickard

Question 5

Introduction of the ‘toothed wheels’ in mechanical calculators

Answer 5

Blaise Pascal, 1642

Question 6

Introduction of the binary system

Answer 6

Joseph Jacquard, 19th century

Question 7

Invention of the difference engine

Answer 7

1812, Babbage

Question 8

Introduction of the boolean logic

Answer 8

George Boole

Question 9

Invention of the Typewriter

Answer 9

1867

Latham Sholes
Carlos Glidden
Samual W Soule

Question 10

The first calculator with numbers entered by pressing a key

Answer 10

Comptometer

1885

Dorr Eugene Felt

Question 11

Development of punched cards used to make devices read the information punched

Answer 11

1890

Herman Hollerith
James Powers

Question 12

Analog computer able to solve simple equations

Answer 12

1927

Vannevar Bush

Question 13

Invention of the Complex Number Calculator

Answer 13

1940

George Robert Stibitz

Question 14

The world’s earliest working programmable electronic digital computer

Answer 14

COLOSSUS

1943

Turing

Question 15

ENIAC

Answer 15

Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator

1946

John P Eckert
John W Mauchly