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invented by William Oughtred
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invented by Wilhelm Schickard
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invented by john napier
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Sir Thomas Browne coined the phrase ‘computer’.
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Pascal's calculator or the Pascaline constructed
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Samuel Morland builds a mechanical calculator that will add and subtract
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Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents the Binary System
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Charles Babbage published a paper describing a mechanical computer that is now known as the Analytical Engine
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QWERTY keyboard invented
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Scheutz invents the first printing calculator
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Zuse Z1 built by Konrad Zuse
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Zuse Z3 machine completed
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4th February Bill Gates returns to Microsoft as Technology Adviser
20th February Facebook buys WhatsApp
25th March Nvidia at GPU Technology Conference
25th March Facebook buys Oculus
18th June Bletchley park officially opens to the public
25th June Android watches go up for preorder
25th August Amazon buys Twitch for £585m