Quiz 1Technologies of the Past (BCE-19th Century)

The calculating device, the abacus, was developed in which of the following countries?

• United States

• Italy

• China

• Japan

The difference engine and the analytical engine were never completed due to cost.

• True

• False

Charles Babbage is known as the “__________ of Computers” and is credited for inventing the difference engine and the analytical engine.

• Father

• Mother

• Brother

• Sister

The typographer was the precursor to the __________ and was invented by William Austin Burt.

• Typewriter

• Printing Press

• Computer

• Telegraph

__________ cards are paper cards containing computer instructions or data inserted into the computer.

• Punch

• Credit

• Greeting

• Business