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Created by John Ambrose Fleming, vacuum tubes are devices that control electric flow between electrodes due to changes in electric potential.
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Invented by Konrad Zuse was the first computer that could be programmed, reading instructions through a punched celluloid strip.
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Created by John Bardeen, William Shockley, and Walter Brattain, Transistors are devices used to amplify or switch electronic signals.
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Invented by John Vincent Atanasoff.
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Invented by Alan Turing, it was the first computer that could really store memory.
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Invented by John McCarthy, AI is intelligence demonstrated by machines.
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Invented by Werner Jacobi, Jack Kilby, and Robert Noyce, an integrated circuit is a set of electronic circuits on one a small flat piece of semiconductor material.
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Created by Douglas Englebart, the mouse is a handheld device whose movement is transmitted onto the device it is connected to.
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Invented by Federico Faggin, Marcian Hoff, Stanley Mazor, and Masatoshi Shima, a computer processor has all the functions of the CPU on a single little integrated circuit.
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Created by Tim Berners-Lee, the world wide web is an information system where documents and other resources are accessible over the internet.
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Invented by Steve Jobs, the iPhone is a touch-screen based smartphone.
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I think the most important invention was the world wide web. Like I can't even comprehend how he made that, and how useful it is now. Before, computers weren't really for personal use, and I feel like the world wide web kind of opened it up to civilians.
