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Abacus was invented 1000BC~ 500BC. It was invented by Egyptians and modified by the Chinese, used to add add and subtract by hand.
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He was a French mathematics genius. He invented the first calculating machine with 8 rotating gears and wheels.
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Ferdinand Verbiest was a Flemish Jesuit missionary in China during the Qing dynasty. He was an accomplished mathematician and astronomer and proved to the court of the Kangxi Emperor that European astronomy was more accurate than Chinese astronomy.
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The pascaline was first invented by Braise Pascal. He got this idea while trying to help his father who's job was to collect taxes.
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He was a German philosopher, historian, and scientist. He developed a calculator that can add, subtract, multiply, divide.
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Steam-powered vehicle was 65 cm-long scale-model toy for the Chinese Emperor, that was unable to carry a driver or a passenger. It was designed by Ferdinand Verbiest but constructed by Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot.
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Leibniz calculator can multiply, devide, add and substract.
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Nicolas Joseph Cugnot built the first full-scale, self-propelled mechanical vehicle or automobile.
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François Isaac de Rivaz was a swiss inventor who designed his own 'de Rivaz internal combustion engine.
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Richard Trevithick was a British inventor and mining engineer. His most significant contribution was to the development of the first high pressure steam engine. He also built the first full-scale working railway steam locomotive.
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Charles Babbage was an English inventor and mathematician. He is the grandfather of computing designs the first general purpose of computer.
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Nicéphore Niépce and his brother Claude created the world's first internal combustion engine which they called a Pyréolophore, but they chose to install it in a boat on the river Saone in France.
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Richard Trevithick built and demonstrated his Puffing Devil road locomotive. It is believed by many to be the first demonstration of a steam-powered road vehicle.
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Pyréolophore was world's first internal combustion engine.
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de Rivaz internal combustion engine developed the world's first vehicle to be powered by such an engine.
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Agusta Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician. She was the first computer programmer. She created a program for the Analytical Engine.
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Have 5 parts:
- The mill or calculating unit
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Gustave Trouvé was a French electrical engineer and inventor of the 19th century.
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Karl Benz was a German engine designer and car engineer, He is the founder of Mercedes-Benz. Karl Benz generally is acknowledged as the inventor of the modern automobile.
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Gearge Selden was a patent lawyer and inventor who was granted a U.S. patent for an automobile in 1895.
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Rudolf Diesel invented the first diesel.
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Herman Hollerith was an American engineer and scientist. He was the first one to make modern day computer.
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Gasoline internal combustion engine was made in 1877 by George Selden.
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Gustave Trouvé demonstrated a working three-wheeled automobile powered by electricity at the International Exposition of Electricity, Paris.
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Karl Benz was awarded the patent for its invention as of his application.
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By 1895 about 30 vehicles had been built by Daimler and Maybach, in 1890, Émile Levassor and Armand Peugeot of France began producing vehicles with Daimler engines,
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German engineer Rudolf Diesel built the first diesel engine.
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Gasoline-powered American car was built and road-tested by the Duryea brothers
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Benz designed and patented the first internal-combustion flat engine, called boxermotor.
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Tommy Flowers was an English engineer. He designed colossus. He was world's first programmable electron computer. He solved the German language.
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Alan M.Turing was an English mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker. He decode secret German messages and predict the missile targets. He was also the founder of computer science, mathematician, philosopher, codebreaker.
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Vacuum Tube Technology was one of hundreds of blocks that held the <1000 Vacuum tubes.>
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1 transistor = 3 vacuum tubes.
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Steve Wozniak is an American engineer and programmer. He co- founded apple computers in the mid-70s.
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Tim Berners Lee is an English physicist, professor, and computer scientist. He was the inventor of WWW. and http://. He was the president of the WWW foundation.
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Bill Gates is an American programmer, inventor, business magnate and philanthropist. He started microsoft in 1975.
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First integrated circuit was combined together into a very small space, farming an integrated circuit.
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Minicomputer is a machine that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the smallest mainframe computers and the microcomputers.
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Microprocessors are silicon chips that contains a CPU. Microprocessors also control the logic of almost all digital devices.
