Social Science Mega Part 1

Which of the following factor’s variability made firing table calculations substantially more difficult?

The electronic computer that Alan Turing helped create is known as the

Before its merger, the Rand Kardex Company made

Which of the following organizations was NOT a key company in the mid-twentieth century computer industry?

Who sent the first long-distance telegraph message?

Which of the following governments sponsored Gaspard de Prony's logarithm project?

Why was the Harvard Mark I designed to be long and narrow?

Which of the following numbers is closest to the number of typewriters sold in 1890?

The earliest calculating machines could BEST be described as

Herman Hollerith’s innovations decreased census tabulation time by

Which of the following instruments inspired Herman Hollerith’s proposal for the census?

Which of the following Maryland towns was the site of large-scale firing table creation?

Navigation tables show the position of

Herman Hollerith’s company eventually became the nucleus of

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

Who recruited mathematicians for the ENIAC project on behalf of Dr. Herman Goldstein?

Which of the following items is used in The Wealth of Nations to exemplify the efficiency of specialization in labor?

Charles Babbage received MOST of the funds for his machine from

Which of the following characteristics is an essential feature of modern computers?

The capacity of a computer to follow instructions and run algorithms is known as

The Comptometer, unlike other adding machines, could NOT

Most adding machines performed their calculations using

Modern computers are ultimately derived from calculating machines produced in

Which of the following men did NOT create a new machine?

In which state was the Aberdeen Proving Ground located?

Which of the following questions does the Entscheidungsproblem ask?

The first telegram message contained the phrase

Where did Dr. Herman Goldstine teach before being drafted into the United States Army?

Which computer was developed at Iowa State University?

J. Presper Eckett was a graduate student in

Howard Aiken needed to solve nonlinear differential equations for his research on

A firing table is used to determine the correct

How many Turing Machines existed at the time of Alan Turing’s death?

The United States Army used firing tables for

Charles Babbage produced his machine prototype in

Which university had a Differential Analyzer that the United States Army used during World War II?

David Hilbert was from

Which figure did Howard Aiken compare himself to?

What role did Howard Aiken mainly serve in the development of the Harvard Mark I?

Why did Konrad Zuse build his own computer?

Who wrote a proposal to the German Army asking for funds to expand Konrad Zuse’s work?

Which conflict was MOST important in spurring the eventual development of electronic computers?

Why did IBM refuse to work with Howard Aiken after the completion of the Harvard Mark I?

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

Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?

Where did Alan Turing’s codebreaking work take place?

Whose daughter was Ada Lovelace?

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

Ada Lovelace is sometimes referred to as the first

Why did Konrad Zuse choose to use binary arithmetic?

Early calculators were known as

Which of the following industries spurred the development of the telegram?

Ada Lovelace translated a report on the Analytical Engine that was originally written in

Which of the following men founded the National Cash Register Company?

The United States conducted its first census in

The machines that aided Alan Turing’s decryption work are known as

Charles Babbage did NOT claim that his machine would

Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine to perform the operation of

Which professor created the Differential Analyzer?

David Hilbert was primarily known as a(n)

The National Cash Register Company created a school to teach

Where did Konrad Zuse work on his computers?

Konrad Zuse graduated from the

Which of the following tasks did Alan Turing prove that a computer could NOT perform?

Which of the following men created the first working cash register?

Konrad Zuse worked as a(n)

Charles Babbage’s work relied on funding from

Ada Lovelace devised an algorithm that could be used to find

Charles Babbage wrote a book titled

The design of electronic computers is based on the work of

Alan Turing worked as a codebreaker during

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

Which of the following businessmen provided funding for the first practical typewriter?

A Turing Machine interprets information that is recorded on a(n)

Which of the following European countries conducted the MOST research in computing during the 1930s?

Great Britain remained primarily agrarian until the

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

Gaspard de Prony named his innovation in making logarithmic books the "method of

In 1911, Thomas Watson, Sr. was fired from

Early telegraphy machines were MOST often located in

As he worked on his machine, Charles Babbage requested more funds for the production of

When did Konrad Zuse release his prototype?

Which of the following nations had the largest navy during the nineteenth century?

Which of the following mathematicians had the greatest influence on Charles Babbage?

Who called the rejection of Konrad Zuse’s funding one of the great “what if” scenarios of the twentieth century?

Which of the following events created the need for specialization and automation?

Modern computers are the descendants of electromechanical computing devices developed in

Early telegram messages invariably cost more or less depending on the

Large-scale manufacturing became widespread in the United States after the

Who PRIMARILY used navigation tables?

Konrad Zuse called his prototype device the

Konrad Zuse’s work is BEST described as