COMPUTER HISTORY

Analytical Engine is an engine powered by a huge __________engine.

• petrol

• diesel

• steam

• electrical

Who is known as the father of computer?

• Herman Hollerith

• Louis Pascal

• ENIAC

• Charles Babbage

The first generation of computers used ____________ as a major piece of technology

• Very Large Scale Integrated (VLSI) circuits.

• Integrated Circuits

• transistors

• vacuum tubes

Which component was used in Second generation computers

• Transistors

• Integrated Circuits

• Vacuum Tubes

• VLSI technology

All modern computers are based on this concept _______

• Pascaline

• abacus

• Analytical Engine

• Tabulating machine

5000 Years Ago One of first tools used to express numbers was the _______________________.

• Maracca
• Abacus
• Lines on Stone
• Sticks in a Pile

Who invented a machine to add long columns of numbers quickly?

• Charles Babbish
•  Blaise Pascal
• John Napier
• Bill Gates

Who invented the first calculating machine that could be called a computer?

• Charles Babbage
• Blaise Pascal
• John Napier
• Bill Gates

Herman Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine helped with what?

• The US Census
• The Abacus
• Stonehenge
• Tabulation

When did the modern computer age begin?

• 1944
• 1954
• 1964
• 1974