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ALSO BY WALTER ISAACSON
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Copyright 2014 by Walter Isaacson
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Interior design by Ruth Lee-Mui
Jacket design by Pete Garceau
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Ada Lovelace by Margaret Carpenter/Hultpn Archive/Getty Images; Steve Jobs by Justin Sullivan /Stringer/Getty Images News; Bill Gates by Theo Wargo/WireImage for OMEGA /Getty Images; Alan Turing by Private Collection/Prismatic Pictures/Bridgeman Images; Author photo by Patrice Gilbert
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Isaacson, Walter.
The innovators : how a group of inventors, hackers, geniuses, and geeks created the digital revolution / Walter Isaacson. First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.
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1.Computer scientistsBiography.2.Computer scienceHistory.3.InternetHistory.I.Title.
QA76.2.A2I872014
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ISBN 978-1-4767-0869-0
ISBN 978-1-4767-0871-3 (ebook)
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1843
Ada, Countess of Lovelace, publishes Notes on Babbages Analytical Engine.
1847
George Boole creates a system using algebra for logical reasoning.
1890
The census is tabulated with Herman Holleriths punch-card machines.
1931
Vannevar Bush devises the Differential Analyzer, an analog electromechanical computer.
1935
Tommy Flowers pioneers use of vacuum tubes as on-off switches in circuits.
1937
Alan Turing publishes On Computable Numbers, describing a universal computer.
Claude Shannon describes how circuits of switches can perform tasks of Boolean algebra.
Bell Labs George Stibitz proposes a calculator using an electric circuit.
Howard Aiken proposes construction of large digital computer and discovers parts of Babbages Difference Engine at Harvard.
John Vincent Atanasoff puts together concepts for an electronic computer during a long December nights drive.
1938
William Hewlett and David Packard form company in Palo Alto garage.
1939
Atanasoff finishes model of electronic computer with mechanical storage drums.
Turing arrives at Bletchley Park to work on breaking German codes.
1941
Konrad Zuse completes Z3, a fully functional electromechanical programmable digital computer.
John Mauchly visits Atanasoff in Iowa, sees computer demonstrated.
1942
Atanasoff completes partly working computer with three hundred vacuum tubes, leaves for Navy.
1943
Colossus, a vacuum-tube computer to break German codes, is completed at Bletchley Park.
1944
Harvard Mark I goes into operation.
John von Neumann goes to Penn to work on ENIAC.
1945
Von Neumann writes First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC describing a stored-program computer.
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