Follow this link, and read the lecture. Read it through and find:

1. the device used in China as a calculating machine, 4000 years ago
2. the first mechanical calculator
3. the scientist considered the "father of computing"
4. the machine used by H. Hollerith in 1890 to read the US census
5. the computer developed by Konrad Zuse in 1941
6. the digital computer built by engineers at IBM and H. Aiken in 1950
7. the device designed by Alan Turing to perform logical operations
8. the giant machine which had more than 2,000 vacuum tubes
9. the company that designed the first microprocessor in 1971
10. the creators of Microsoft
11. the first computer with a graphical user interface and a mouse
12. the main uses of the Web and where it was developed

Translate these words into your language:

1. computer science
2. calendar
3. abacus
4. punched card
5. vacuum tube
6. transistor
7. integrated circuit
8. personal computer
9. application
10. word processor