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The word ''computer'' was first recorded as being used in 1613.
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John Napier introduced a system called ''Napiers Bones''. A device that allowed the capability of multiplying. https://www.computerhope.com/history/1600.htm
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The first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm.
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Frances Pascal invents a machine called the Pascaline that can add, subtract, and carry between digits.
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Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards.
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Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer," the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide.
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Joseph Henry of Princeton invented the first working telegraph.
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Charles Babbage first purposed the Analytical Engine, which was the first computer to use punch cards as memory and a way to program the computer.
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The first modern analog computer was a tide-predicting machine, invented by Sir William Thomson in 1872.
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The first keyboard to have a Shift key is introduced on the Remington No. 2 typewriter introduced in 1878 that had one Shift key on the left side of the keyboard.
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Charles Baggage, an English mechanical engineer, originated the concept of a programmable computer.
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Henry Babbage, completed a simplified version of the analytical engine's computing unit (the mill) in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906.
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The company now known as IBM was founded on June 16, 1911, in the state of New York. a consolidation of the Computing Scale Company, and The International Time Recording Company. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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The Computing - Tabulating - Recording (C-T-R) company was renamed to IBM on February 14, 1924. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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The principle of the modern computer was proposed by Alan Turing in 1936. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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By 1938, the United States Navy had developed an electromechanical analog computer small enough to use aboard a submarine. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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In 1941, Zuse followed his earlier machine up with the Z3, the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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A team under the leadership of Tom Kilburn designed and built a machine using the newly developed transistors instead of valves in 1953. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer
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The ILLIAC IV supercomputer is created in 1971.
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Gary Kildall develops the first commercially successful operating system for microcomputers. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1976/
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In 1977, the Apple ll was created. Millions of Apple IIs were sold between 1977 and 1993, making it one of the longest-lived lines of personal computers. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1977/
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The LaserDisc is introduced in 1978. http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1978/
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Windows 7 is released by the company Apple.
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In 2010 tablets and smartphones replace more and more functionality of the PC.
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In 2018, Apple designed IOS 12
