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Went to Trinity College hecking accuracy of calculations made for the royal astronomical society & kept finding errors
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They provided Charles with start up funds to finish his project the differnce engine.
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Charles spent the money and more from his own pocket and only little was put together.
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Charles got enough parts to fix the engine and it worked.
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The orchestra band that gave Charles a hard time and visa vera found out he was ill and surrounded his house and serenated him til he died.
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Tghe census beauro was still hand tallying the data from the 1880 census the beauro looked for any method that could speed up the counting of the 1890 census.
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The punch cards were finally put to work.
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He sold his share in the machine company for over 1 million dollars.
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Watson renamed it International Business Machine also known as IBM.
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America limpted out of the great depression & IBM grew with success.
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There was a critical shortage of a surprising compenent of the war machine - firing tables for artilery tables
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Program machine was made & recognized.
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cover of the Popular Electronics announced the debut of the Altair 8800 ( the 1st personal computer).
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They officially formed the Apple Computer Company.
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This company introduced the industry 1st portable comp.
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the web browser Mosaic was introduced.
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He was an investment analyst in Boston when he began ti post videos to youtube to teach algebra.Today his non-profit named Khan Academy contains over 2,200 vids and over a million students a month use the site.
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More than 273 million units of computer games were sold.
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The goverment responded to the increasing unrest online by turning off the internet for the entire country.