History of Computers

The abacus was created by ______________________________

• Blaise Pascal
• The Babylonians
• Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
• Jospeh Marie Jaquard

Which one of the following devices was created in 1801?

• The abacus
• Pascaline
• Stepped Reckoner
• Jaquard's Loom

The stepped Reckoner was invented in ______________________

• 500 BC
• 1642
• 1673
• 1801

Blaise Pascal invented the _____________________________.

• Pascaline
• Abacus
• Stepped Reckoner
• Difference Engine

The Analytical engine was designed in ____________.

• 1801
• 1833
• 1890
• 500 BC

I was known as the father of computing. I am ___________________.

• Blaise Pascal
• Herman Hollerith
• Marie Jaquard
• Charles Babbage.

This machine was used to count and sort information for the US census. It was the __________________________.

• Abacus
• Hollerith's Tabulating Machine
• Analytical Engine
• Difference engine

The Difference engine was  designed in 1822.

• True
• False

Charles Babbage designed the Tabulating Machine.

• True 
• False

This machine stored codes for weaving fabric in a pattern. It was the _____________.

• Stepped Reckoner
• Pascaline
• Difference engine
• Jaquard's Loom