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Basic Computing Periods - Ages
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  • 1

    is the earliest age of information technology.

    premechanical age

  • 2

    When humans first started communicating they would try to use language or simple picture drawings known as___

    petroglyths

  • 3

    Early alphabets were developed such as the___

    Phoenician alphabet.

  • 4

    popular ways of writing down information to save.

    Egyptian scrolls

  • 5

    during this period were the first numbering systems.

    premechanical age

  • 6

    This is where the first books and libraries are developed.

    premechanical age

  • 7

    was when the first 1-9 system was created by people from ___(place)

    100A.D. India

  • 8

    that the number 0 was invented.

    875A.D.

  • 9

    when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors.

    mechanical age

  • 10

    A lot of new technologies are developed in this era as there is a large explosion in interest with this area.

    mechanical age

  • 11

    Technologies like the slide rule an analog computer used for multiplying and dividing were invented.

    mechanical era

  • 12

    Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline

    Mechanical era

  • 13

    Charles Babbage developed the difference engine which tabulated polynomial equations using the method of finite differences.

    Mechanical age

  • 14

    the beginnings of telecommunication.

    Electromechanical age

  • 15

    telegraph was created

    electromechanical age

  • 16

    Morse code was created

    electromechanical age

  • 17

    morse code inventor and date

    Samuel Morse 1835

  • 18

    one of the most popular forms of communication

    telephone

  • 19

    Telephone inventor and date

    Alexander Graham Bell in 1876

  • 20

    The first radio developed by ___(name) (date)

    Guglielmo Marconi in 1894.

  • 21

    telephone

    electromechanical age

  • 22

    The first radio

    electromechanical age

  • 23

    The first large-scale automatic digital computer in the United States

    Mark 1

  • 24

    Mark 1 inventor

    Harvard University 1940.

  • 25

    was the first high-speed, digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems.

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

  • 26

    ENIAC

    electronic age

  • 27

    This computer was designed to be used by the U.S. Army for artillery firing tables.

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

  • 28

    This computer was designed to be used by the U.S. Army for artillery firing tables. This machine was even bigger than the Mark 1 taking up 680 square feet and weighing 30 tons - HUGE.

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)

  • 29

    It mainly used vacuum tubes to do its calculations.

    Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC)