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Wilhelm Shickard |
Build the first room-sized calculating machine. It could add and subtract up to six digits. Early 1600's. |
Six digits. |
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Blaise Pascal |
Created the first digits and taxes calculator machine. 1600's. |
Nothing is certain but... |
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz |
Created the first machine capable of handling all basic mathematical functions: Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication, Division. 1700's. |
Basic math. |
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Charles Babbage |
The father of "computing". Invented the first computer capable of handling polynomials and the use of punch cards for machine operation. 1800's. |
Clocking in and out. |
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Alan Turing |
Developed the Turing Machine; a type of machine capable of handling algorithmic logic. It was used to crack the Nazi's Enigma Encryption in World War II. |
Won the war. |
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Konrad Zuse |
First machine to use electromechanical relays instead of gears. Created a programmable machine called the Z1. 1940's. |
Ahead of his time. |
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John Vincent Atanasoff |
Built the first electronic digital computer. He used vacuum tubes which were later used in television. 1930's. |
The future is now! |
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John Mauchly |
Credited with building the first computer called ENIAC: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer. Linear and calculus operations. |
ENIAC |
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William Schochley, John Burdeen and Walter Bratain |
Built the first transistor. Used as a basic on/off switch or voltage amplifier. |
Like a light... |
