Development of Computers

  • Logarithms invented by John Napier

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    Computing Timeline

  • Samuel Morland builds a calculator that can add and subtract

  • Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz invents the Binary System

  • Analytical Engine (first modern-ish computer made) was made

  • Arithmometer: First commercially successful calculator launched

  • QWERTY Keyboard invented

  • Nintendo is founded

  • 3 companies merge to creat C-T-R

  • C-T-R becomes IBM

  • First COLOSSUS code-cracking machine becomes operational

  • Timothy Bernes-Lee is born

  • Douglas Engelbart invents the mouse

  • Microsoft founded

  • Microsoft Windows launched

  • Steve Jobs, cofounder of Apple, dies

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