Social Science Mega Part 1

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

Early telegraphy machines were MOST often located in

In which state was the Aberdeen Proving Ground located?

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

Which of the following questions does the Entscheidungsproblem ask?

The Comptometer, unlike other adding machines, could NOT

Why did Konrad Zuse choose to use binary arithmetic?

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

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

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

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

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

Charles Babbage received MOST of the funds for his machine from

The earliest calculating machines could BEST be described as

Herman Hollerith’s company eventually became the nucleus of

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

Great Britain remained primarily agrarian until the

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

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

Modern computers are the descendants of electromechanical computing devices developed in

The National Cash Register Company created a school to teach

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

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

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

Herman Hollerith’s innovations decreased census tabulation time by

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

J. Presper Eckett was a graduate student in

When did Konrad Zuse release his prototype?

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

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

The design of electronic computers is based on the work of

Who wrote The Wealth of Nations?

Early calculators were known as

Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine to perform the operation of

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

Which professor created the Differential Analyzer?

Which figure did Howard Aiken compare himself to?

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

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

Ada Lovelace devised an algorithm that could be used to find

Charles Babbage did NOT claim that his machine would

Where did Alan Turing’s codebreaking work take place?

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

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

Why did Konrad Zuse build his own computer?

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

Who sent the first long-distance telegraph message?

Early telegram messages invariably cost more or less depending on the

Navigation tables show the position of

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

A firing table is used to determine the correct

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

Charles Babbage wrote a book titled

David Hilbert was from

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

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

Whose daughter was Ada Lovelace?

Ada Lovelace is sometimes referred to as the first

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

The United States Army used firing tables for

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

Konrad Zuse called his prototype device the

Konrad Zuse graduated from the

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

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

Before its merger, the Rand Kardex Company made

Modern computers are ultimately derived from calculating machines produced in

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

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

In 1911, Thomas Watson, Sr. was fired from

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

Alan Turing worked as a codebreaker during

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

Charles Babbage’s work relied on funding from

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

Who PRIMARILY used navigation tables?

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

David Hilbert was primarily known as a(n)

The first telegram message contained the phrase

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

Which computer was developed at Iowa State University?

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

Konrad Zuse worked as a(n)

Charles Babbage produced his machine prototype in

Where did Konrad Zuse work on his computers?

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

Konrad Zuse’s work is BEST described as

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

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

Most adding machines performed their calculations using

The United States conducted its first census in

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