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William Oughtred invented the slide rule. The first one that he made the circual. It is important becuase it it was the first anglong computer.
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Phillip-Malthus Hahn builds and sells a small number of calculating machines which are accurate to 12 digits. This was important becuase computer use calulator for many things.
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Joseph-Marie Jacquard invents an automated loom which uses punched cards to reproduce complex patterns. This is important becuase know we are able to see pattern every where for a chep price.
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This was invented by William Austin Burt. It's slow. This is important becuase it shows the first time that we were able to type.
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Dr. Herman Hollerith made the first electromechanical punched card data processing machine. It is important becuase it was used to compile information from the 1890 US census.
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Two American physicists, Eccles and Jordan, invent the flip-flop circuit.This was important becuase it made computer run faster
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IBM builds the first hard drive. This was important becuase we could know save memrory
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Douglas Engelbart, demonstrates his system of keyboard, keypad, mouse. This was important becuase we use all of them on a computer today.
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Microsoft Windows was invented. This is important because many us use it, and the war with Apple and Windows started
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Yahoo is founded. It was founded by Stanford graduate students Jerry Yang and David Filo. This was important invent in history becuase it is where we can find much information.
