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In France, Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards
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English mathematician charles babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables
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herman hollerith designs a punch card system
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alan turing persents the notion of a universal machine
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J.V. Atanasoff a professor of physics and mathematics at iowa state
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it was invented in 1946 by john mauchly
