Scavenger Hunt

Name____________________________________

Explore the different areas of the Computer history website to find the answers to the following questions. Good Luck

1.The abacus as we know it today, appeared circa 1200 A.D. in ______________

2. William Oughtred created the ______________

3. Another name that is often mentioned when discussing the history of computers is ____________________________(1815-1852).These extensive writings on the Analytical Engine later became known as the first explanation of computer programming

4. The concept of the first computer was first visualized by ____________________________ in 1834 in England

5. His idea for the____________________________consisted of 4 parts: an input device, a storage device, a mill (processing unit) and an output device.

6. In 1642 ____________________________invented the first mechanical calculator to speed arithmetic calculations for his father, a tax official.

7. J. Bardeen, W.H. Brattain, and W. Shockley were the creators of the first____________________.

8. Grace Murray Hopper, working in a temporary World War I building at Harvard University on the Mark II computer, found the first ____________________________beaten to death in the jaws of a relay.

9. The first practical use of punched cards for data processing is credited to the American inventor ____________________________, who decided to use Jacquard's punched cards to represent the data gathered for the American census of 1890, and to read and collate this data using an automatic machine.

10. The Manchester Mark I computer functioned as a complete system using over 1,300 ___________________for it's computing power.

11. On election night, November 4, CBS News borrowed a ______________ to make a scientific prediction of the outcome of the race for the presidency between Dwight D. Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson.

12. The ____________________________was the invention of Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce.

13. The original ARPANET grew into the ______________

14. Texas Instruments Cal-Tech, World's First Pocket Electronic Calculator originally cost $____________

15. First Personal computer was the____________________________.