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The document lists notable computer inventors and their inventions along with the years they were created. Key figures include Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Tim Berners-Lee, among others, who contributed to the development of computers, programming languages, and the internet. This timeline highlights the evolution of computing technology from the 19th century to the early 21st century.

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Computer Inventors and Their Inventions 1

The document lists notable computer inventors and their inventions along with the years they were created. Key figures include Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Alan Turing, and Tim Berners-Lee, among others, who contributed to the development of computers, programming languages, and the internet. This timeline highlights the evolution of computing technology from the 19th century to the early 21st century.

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Computer Inventors and Their Inventions

| Inventor(s) | Invention | Year |

| --- | --- | --- |

| 1. Charles Babbage | Analytical Engine (mechanical computer) | 1822-1837 |

| 2. Ada Lovelace | First computer programmer (notes on Analytical Engine) | 1843 |

| 3. Alan Turing | Turing Machine (theoretical computer model) | 1936 |

| 4. Konrad Zuse | Z1 (first digital freely programmable computer) | 1936 |

| 5. John Atanasoff & Clifford Berry | ABC (first electronic computer) | 1939-1942 |

| 6. John Mauchly & J. Presper Eckert | ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) | 1943-
1946 |

| 7. John Bardeen, Walter Brattain, & William Shockley | Transistor | 1947-1948 |

| 8. Grace Hopper | COBOL (programming language) | 1959 |

| 9. Douglas Engelbart | Computer Mouse | 1964 |

| 10. Niklaus Wirth | Pascal (programming language) | 1970 |

| 11. Dennis Ritchie | C (programming language) | 1972 |

| 12. Steve Jobs & Steve Wozniak | Apple I (personal computer) | 1976 |

| 13. Tim Berners-Lee | World Wide Web (HTTP, HTML, URL) | 1989-1991 |

| 14. Linus Torvalds | Linux (operating system) | 1991 |

| 15. Vint Cerf & Bob Kahn | Internet (TCP/IP protocol suite) | 1972-1983 |

| 16. Jack Kilby & Robert Noyce | Integrated Circuit | 1958 |

| 17. Faggin, Hoff & Mazor | Microprocessor (Intel 4004) | 1971 |

| 18. Larry Page & Sergey Brin | Google (search engine) | 1998 |

| 19. Bill Gates & Paul Allen | Altair BASIC (programming language for microcomputers) | 1975 |

| 20. Robert Metcalfe | Ethernet (networking technology) | 1973 |

| 21. Dan Bricklin & Bob Frankston | VisiCalc (first spreadsheet program) | 1979 |

| 22. Brendan Eich | JavaScript (programming language) | 1995 |

| 23. Mark Zuckerberg | Facebook (social media platform) | 2004 |

| 24. Reynold B. Johnson | Hard Disk | 1956 (IBM Model 350 Disk File) |

| 25. James Russell | CD-ROM | 1965 |


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