How does an electrical typewriter function differently from its mechanical counterpart?

A motor strikes the typebar against paper.

Which of the following questions does the Entscheidungsproblem ask?

Can the veracity of every logical statement be solved by an algorithm?

Why did Americans adopt new technology more quickly than their European counterparts?

They did not have decades of established economic tradition.

How did the Bankers Clearing House improve the efficiency of the British banking system in the 1800s?

providing a central location for bank clerks to exchange checks

How did Charles Babbage anticipate the Analytical Engine being different from the Difference Engine?

The Analytical Engine would perform more mathematical operations.

How come the Differential Analyzer, the Mark I, and the ABC are not considered modern general purpose computers?

They lacked the ability to perform conditional branching.

Which action did Thomas Watson, Sr. NOT take during his company’s rise to dominance?

appointing his son as the company’s CEO

How did Gaspard de Prony innovate the task of making books of logarithms?

He broke it down into simple steps.

Before its merger, the Rand Kardex Company made

vertically hanging folders and filing cabinets

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1
How does an electrical typewriter function differently from its mechanical counterpart?
Keys turn the force of the user’s keypress into electricity.
A motor strikes the typebar against paper.
Characters are displayed on a digital screen.
A battery powers the typewriter.
The typewriter is connected to a computer.
2
Howard Aiken needed to solve nonlinear differential equations for his research on
typewriter keys
vacuum tubes
machine gears
motorized tabulators
electronic pulleys
3
Why did IBM refuse to work with Howard Aiken after the completion of the Harvard Mark I?
Aiken enlisted in the Navy.
Aiken claimed sole credit.
Aiken refused to work with IBM’s engineers.
Aiken embezzled from the project fund.
Aiken dropped out of the project.
4
Which of the following questions does the Entscheidungsproblem ask?
Does the computing power of computers grow at a geometric rate over time?
Can a binary code represent the characters of every language?
Will computers be able to acquire knowledge at a faster rate than humans?
Do computers have the capacity to synthesize new information?
Can the veracity of every logical statement be solved by an algorithm?
5
Charles Babbage received MOST of the funds for his machine from
friends
a company
family members
the government
a noble
6
Which did engineers use a special-purpose machine to solve in the 30s before there were general-purpose computers?
differential equation
polynomial equation
exponential equation
logarithmic equation
linear equation
7
Which of the following men created the first working cash register?
Dorr. E. Felt
James Ritty
Herman Hollerith
Christopher Latham Sholes
Robert Porter
8
Which of the following governments sponsored Gaspard de Prony's logarithm project?
Great Britain
Spain
France
Italy
United States
9
What role did Howard Aiken mainly serve in the development of the Harvard Mark I?
salesman
consultant
financier
designer
programmer
10
Why did Americans adopt new technology more quickly than their European counterparts?
American businesses were able to finance with credit easier.
They generally had more capital.
The new tech was often made in Europe and pirated in the U.S.
The American government encouraged new technology.
They did not have decades of established economic tradition.
11
Herman Hollerith’s company eventually became the nucleus of
Intel
HP
AT&T
Dell
IBM
12
Great Britain remained primarily agrarian until the
early nineteenth century
late seventeenth century
early seventeenth century
late sixteenth century
late eighteenth century
13
How did the Bankers Clearing House improve the efficiency of the British banking system in the 1800s?
helping to insure deposits across British banks
offering easier credit to aid banks in times of financial crisis
standardizing interest rates for loans between banks
standardizing reserve rates across British banks
providing a central location for bank clerks to exchange checks
14
How did Charles Babbage anticipate the Analytical Engine being different from the Difference Engine?
The Analytical Engine would be more compact.
The Analytical Engine would perform more mathematical operations.
The Analytical Engine would be constructed of more durable materials.
The Analytical Engine would be used on land.
The Analytical Engine would run solely on steam power.
15
Which of the following industries spurred the development of the telegram?
printing
railroad
agriculture
mining
banking
16
Which of the following items is used in The Wealth of Nations to exemplify the efficiency of specialization in labor?
gears
pins
textiles
furniture
bread
17
Ada Lovelace devised an algorithm that could be used to find
the Fibonacci sequence
the golden ratio
Bernoulli numbers
the least common factor
perfect squares
18
Who sent the first long-distance telegraph message?
Michael Faraday
Samuel Morse
Guglielmo Marconi
Thomas Edison
Alexander Graham Bell
19
In 1911, Thomas Watson, Sr. was fired from
Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company
National Cash Register Company
Remington Rand Typewriter Company
International Business Machines
Monroe Calculating Machine Company
20
A Turing Machine interprets information that is recorded on a(n)
plastic tray
roll of paper tape
carved wooden plate
engraved metal plate
partitioned canvas
21
Which professor created the Differential Analyzer?
Howard Aiken
Vannevar Bush
Clifford Berry
William S. Burroughs
John Atanasoff
22
The first telegram message contained the phrase
“how far is far enough”
“thy kingdom come”
“what hath God wrought”
“Judgment Day is upon us”
“where is the new horizon”
23
Alan Turing worked as a codebreaker during
the Spanish Civil War
World War II
the Korean War
the Boer War
World War I
24
How come the Differential Analyzer, the Mark I, and the ABC are not considered modern general purpose computers?
They could not be programmed.
They follow a series of instructions from start to finish.
They were primarily electronic.
They were heavy and expensive.
They lacked the ability to perform conditional branching.
25
Early calculators were known as
totalizers
data processors
adding machines
number crunchers
mathematical computers
26
The electronic computer that Alan Turing helped create is known as the
ACE
COS
UCS
ABC
CPU
27
Which of the following instruments inspired Herman Hollerith’s proposal for the census?
the hydraulophone
the stylophone
the glass armonica
the theremin
the organette
28
The National Cash Register Company created a school to teach
business principles
customer service
salesmanship
research and development
effective management
29
Which action did Thomas Watson, Sr. NOT take during his company’s rise to dominance?
investing in research to improve tabulating machines
implementing aggressive sales techniques
appointing his son as the company’s CEO
changing the company’s name
using knowledge gained from Watson’s previous employer
30
How did Gaspard de Prony innovate the task of making books of logarithms?
He created a machine to complete the math.
He broke it down into simple steps.
He devised a method to work backward from known values.
He created tables of frequently used numbers.
He trained highly skilled workers.
31
Whose daughter was Ada Lovelace?
George Byron’s
Alfred Tennyson’s
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s
John Keats’s
Percy Shelley’s
32
The capacity of a computer to follow instructions and run algorithms is known as
memory
storage
operationality
programmability
rationality
33
Who had a copy of the Differential Analyzer that led to the creation of the first modern electronic computer?
University of Pennsylvania
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Iowa State University
Cambridge University
Harvard University
34
Before its merger, the Rand Kardex Company made
typewriters and supplementary supplies
chairs and desks for offices
notepads and writing utensils
staplers and other small office tools
vertically hanging folders and filing cabinets
35
Gaspard de Prony named his innovation in making logarithmic books the "method of
differences"
sums"
rationals"
divisors"
squares"

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