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Schickard built the first known mechanical calculator that could add and subtract numbers automatically.
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Babbage completes his plans for his analytical machine, although he never actualy constructs it.
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Konrad Zuse was born on this date. He built the Z1, Z2, and Z3 mechanical computers,
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The Z1 was the first of 3 mechanical computers built by Zuse
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The Z2 was the second of three mechanical computers that Zuse built.
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The Z3 was the final of three mechanical computers built by Zuse.
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ENIAC was a government project that was deemed a derivative of the ABC in Honeywell v. Sperry Rand.