History of Computer

Who invented the numerical wheel calculator or the Pascaline?

• Charles Babbage

• Blaise Pascal

• Gottfried Willhem von Leibniz

• Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

Who invented the first general-purpose computer called the Analytical Engine?

• Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

• Blaise Pascal

• Babbage and Byron

• Gottfried Willhem von Leibniz

Who invented a machine that could perform the four basic arithmetic functions known as the Arithmometer?

• Blaise Pascal

• Lady Augusta Ada Byron

• Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

• Gottfried Willhem von Leibniz

Who improved the Pascaline by creating a machine that could also multiply numbers?

• Blaise Pascal

• Lady Augusta Ada Byron

• Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

• Gottfried Willhem von Leibniz

An american inventor who introduced his PUNCH CARD READER to the business world.

• Herman Hollerith

• Lady Augusta Ada Byron

• Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

• Gottfried Willhem von Leibniz

• microcomputer

• microprocessor

• analytical engine

• pascaline

• arithmometer

• punch card reader

• pascaline

• analytical engine

• arithmometer

• punch card reader

• microcomputer/IBM

• analytical engine

• arithmometer

• punch card reader

• microcomputer/IBM

• analytical engine

• arithmometer

• punch card reader

• microcomputer/IBM

• analytical engine