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Computer History
Fifth Grade Computer History Project
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Computer Science
5th Grade
12/05/2008

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Presper Eckert

 

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He invented ENIAC. He went to Moore School of Electrical Engineering. He was born in 1919 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He died at age 76 in 1995.

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ED ROBERTS

 

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He is know as the founder of Micro Instrmention.He was in the computerIndustury for 25 years.Also he is the president of Roberts Technology.He was born in 1942.
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Howard Aiken

 

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He was known for creating the Automatic Sequence Computer. The Automatic sequence Computer solved Equations for him.  When he grew up, he studied at the university of wisconsin.  Grace Hopper worked worked with himto create the automatic sequence computer. 

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Analytical Machine

 

 

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In 1837, Augusta Ada Lovelace invented this machine.  It was based on Charles Babbage's work.
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Georg Sheutz

 

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He was known for his inventions,but mostly his most known invention the Sheutzian Calculation Engine.  The Sheutzian Calculation Engine was invented in 1873.  It also was based on Charles Babbages Diffrance Machine.  He was a legal expert and translator before turning to machanic engineering and politics.  He really made somthing out of his life. 
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Grace Hopper

 

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She Made the Mark one and its a ginormors calculater. By the end of world war two she was starting on the Mark two. She and Howard Aiken were working to build the Autoamtic Sequence computer. She married Vincent Hopper in 1930. She had an astounding life.

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Steve Wozniak

 

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He created Apple One and Apple Two computers in the mid 1970's.By the time he reached college he was designing and building whole computers.On April Fool's Day in 1976 he and Steve Jobs released the Apple One computers and created Apple Computers.Next season he is going to be on Dancing With The Stars.He was bornAugust 11,1950in San Jose.
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John Atanasoff

 

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He made the berry-computer.He made the first computer he developed binary math used in computers today. He wanted a faster calculater.The computers didnt have cpu they used vacum houses to control the computers. 
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George Stibitz

 

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He made the complex number calcukater, it came to be reconized as the worlds electronic digital computer. He was fiddling with wires, batterys, flashlightbulbs and other theings. He made the worlds first eletronic digital computer. He was a Bell Labs Researcher. He was born on April 20,1924, and died on January 20,1995.
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The difference engine

 

 

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It was made by Charles Babbage. He built it to tabulate poliolanoinol functions. Per georg schuetz made something along the lines of it. 

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William Shockley

 

 

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He invemted the the transistor.the transitor was desighned in 1950.A transistoris a semiconductor device commonly used to amplifiy for switch electronic signals. Shockley was  a proffessor atstandford. 

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Ada Lovelace

 

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She helped invent the Analytical Engine.  She is recognised as the first programmer.

She was born on December 14, 1815 and died of cancer on November 27, 1852 at the age of 36.  

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