History of Computers

Who invented logarithms?

• John Napier
• Galileo Galilei
• Isaac Newton
• Albert Einstein

How did the first Calculator add and subtract?

• Digital display and buttons
• Chemical reactions
• Biological processes
• Rotating Dials

What nationality was Blaise Pascal?

• French
• Spanish
• Italian
• German

Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz invented a machine in what year?

• 1750
• 1600
• 1805
• 1674

What did Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibnitz call the machine he created

Joseph-Marie Jacquard was a ?

• weaver

• teacher

• doctor

• chef

The “Stepped Reckoner” can carry out what mathematical functions?

• The Stepped Reckoner can carry out addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.
• The Stepped Reckoner can carry out trigonometric functions.
• The Stepped Reckoner can carry out square root and cube root functions.
• The Stepped Reckoner can carry out only addition and subtraction.

One of the earliest electronic general-purpose digital computers was?

• Macbook Pro
• PlayStation 5
• Tesla Model S
• ENIAC

The first commercially available microprocessor was the?

• Intel 4004
• Apple A14 Bionic
• Nvidia GeForce RTX 3080
• AMD Ryzen 9

ENIAC and UNIVAC-1 are examples of which generation of computers?

• Tenth generation
• Fifth generation
• Third generation
• First generation