History of computer 1st

Blaise Pascal in (___________), the 18-year-old son of a French tax collector, invented what he called a numerical wheel calculator to help his father with his duties.

• 1646 - 1716

• 1820

• 1623 - 1662

• 1791 - 1871

This brass rectangular box, also called a _____________, used eight movable dials to add sums up to eight figures long.

• The Difference Engine

• The Pascaline

• The Abacus

• The Leibniz Mechanical Calculator

A German mathematician and philosopher, Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz improved the Pascaline by creating a machine that could also ____________.

• Add

• Multiply

• Subtract

• Divide

In (_________) Gottfried Wilhem von Leibniz, improved the Pascaline by creating a machine the Leibniz's mechanical multiplier which worked with a system of gears and dials

• 1646 - 1716

• 1820

• 1623 - 1662

• 1791 - 1871

Babbage's proposed a machine to perform differential equations, called a ___

• The Abacus

• The Pascaline

• The Leibniz Mechanical Multiplier

• Difference Engine

In __________, Charles Babbage proposed a machine to perform differential equations.

• 1617 - 1716

• 1623 - 1662

• 1791 - 1871

• 2005 - 2015

Babbage's assistant, Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace (1815-1842). Also, Lady Lovelace's fine understanding of the machine allowed her to create the instruction routines to be fed into the computer, making her the first female computer

• Programmer

• Developer

• Designer

• Architect

An American inventor, Herman Hollerith in  __________, also applied the Jacquard loom concept to computing. His first task was to find a faster way to compute the U.S. census. This concept was later to become International Business Machines (IBM)

• 1791 - 1871

• 1623 - 1662

• 2005 - 2015

• 1860 - 1929

What is the name of this machine?

• The Pasculine

• Abacus

• Babage Engine

• Hollerith Electric Machine

In the year 1946, the first successful electronic computer called _______was developed

• ENIAC

• Integrated Circuits

• Vaccum Tube

• Transistor