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Computer Highlights Timeline

Did you know that the first electronic, programmable, general-purpose computer was invented in 1946? It was called ENIAC, for "Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer." Delve deeper into the history of computers with a handy, concise computer highlights timeline!

Chapter Articles

  • Computers
    • All About...Apple
    • All About...ENIAC
    • All About...Microsoft
    • Computer Highlights Time Line
    • Computer Talk
    • Searching the Internet
    • The Binary System
  • Inventions
    • Inventions
    • Great Ideas—By Accident!
    • Young Inventors
    • Einstein’s Nobel Prize
    • Edison’s Light Bulb...
  • Inventors
    • Bell, Alexander Graham
    • Carver, George Washington
    • Curie, Marie
    • Daimler, Gottlieb
    • Eastman, George
    • Edison, Thomas Alva
    • Fleming, Sir Alexander
    • Ford, Henry
    • Franklin, Benjamin
    • Fulton, Robert
    • Goddard, Robert Hutchings
    • Gutenberg, Johann
    • Howe, Elias
    • Mcclintock, Barbara
    • Mccormick, Cyrus Hall
    • Morse, Samuel Finley Breese
    • Nobel, Alfred Bernhard
    • Otis, Elisha Graves
    • Salk, Jonas Edward
    • Sikorsky, Igor Ivanovich
    • Tesla, Nikola
    • Westinghouse, George
    • Whitney, Eli
    • Wright Brothers
  • Transportation
    • Air
    • All About...the Transcontinental Railroad
    • Amelia Earhart Remembered
    • Autos
    • Celebrating 100 Years of Flight
    • Ford, Henry
    • Public Transportation
    • Sea
    • Solar Racing
    • The Air Age Begins
    • Trains


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Technology  Bonus Material

  • Chapter Quiz: Science & Technology
  • Inventions: Mind Bogglers
  • Transportation Puzzle
  • Who Discovered What?
  • How Computers Work

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