Social Studies Section I All Dates

When did Adam Smith write his book The Wealth of Nations?

1776

When was the census first performed?

1790

When did Babbage become interested in automating calculations?

1819

When did Babbage produce his small-scale prototype of the Difference Engine?

1833

When did Babbage write to the prie minster to request funds to finish the Difference Engine?

1834

When did Ada Lovelace translate A report, originally written in French, describing the Analytical Engine?

1843

_______ was when various railway companies ran electric cables along their railraod tracks

1860s

When did Christopher Latham Sholes design and patent the first practical typewriter?

1869

When did Sholes and Densmore persuade Philo Remington to produce 1000 typewriters?

1873

When was the first succesful cash register invented?

1879

When was Remington selling more than 1000 typewriters?

1880

When did Dorr E. Felt invent the Comptometer?

1887

When did Porter accept a proposal by Herman Hollerith to record demographic information on small sheets of cardstock?

1888

Herman Hollerith contributed to the _____ census

1890

Robert Porter was appointed director of the ______ census

1890

By when was NCR selling approxiamtely 100,000 cash registers every year?

1910

When did CTR change its name to IBM?

1924

When did the Remington Typewriter Company merge with the Rand Kardex Company (known as the Remington Rand)?

1927

When did David Hilbert propose the Entscheidungsproblem?

1928

Between what dates did Vannevar Bush created the Differential Analyzer?

1928 and 1931

By when were mechanical calcualtors such as adding macines commonplace

1930s

When did Zuse graduate from the Technical College of Berlin-Charlottenburg in Germany?

1935

When did Zuse build his prototype device?

1938

When did Aiken enlist into the navy?

1941

When did Helmut write a proposal to the German Army to request funding to build a larger, fully electronic computer based on Zuse's design

1942

When did the creators of ABC abandon ABCE and move onto other projects?

1942

When was Mark I offially dedicated?

1944

Today's handheld devices are running software first created in ______

1970s

When was Thomas J. Watson, Sr., fired?

1991