History of Calculating Machines Quiz
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Who is credited with inventing logarithms?

  • John Napier (correct)
  • Edmund Gunter
  • Wilhelm Schickard
  • William Oughtred
  • Who is considered the inventor of the slide rule?

  • William Oughtred (correct)
  • Edmund Gunter
  • Wilhelm Schickard
  • John Napier
  • Who is known for building the first mechanical calculator called 'calculating clock'?

  • Wilhelm Schickard (correct)
  • Charles Babbage
  • Blaise Pascal
  • Joseph-Marie Jacquard
  • Who is often credited with writing the world's first computer program?

    <p>Augusta Ada Byron</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed a mechanical tabulator based on punched cards for the US Census in 1890?

    <p>Herman Hollerith</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who completed the first general purpose programmable calculator in 1941?

    <p>Konrad Zuse</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who invented the first programmable computer?

    <p>Alan Turing</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University?

    <p>Howard Aiken</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who invented the phrase 'bug' to refer to an error in a program?

    <p>Grace Hopper</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who invented the ENIAC, the first programmable electronic digital computer?

    <p>John Mauchly</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who developed the cathode ray tube used to electronically store binary data called 'William-Kilburn tube'?

    <p>Tom Kilburn</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who invented the 'transistor' at Bell Labs?

    <p>Robert Noyce</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who produced the first 'integrated circuit'?

    <p>Jack Kilby</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who invented and patented the first computer mouse in the 1960s?

    <p>Douglas Engelbart</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who founded the Microsoft Corporation?

    <p>Bill Gates &amp; Paul Allen</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who founded the Apple computers?

    <p>Steve Wozniak &amp; Steve Jobs</p> Signup and view all the answers

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