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The word "computer" was first used in the book "The yong mans gleanings" by the English writer Richard Braithwait to describe the best Arithmetician; a person who carried calculations or computations.
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Invented a mechanical calculator known as Pascal's Calculator.
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Improved the textile loom by introducing punch paper cards to automate the machine.
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Charles Babbage was the first person to design a fully programmable mechanical computer.
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Ada Lovelace is considered to be the first computer programmer. She created the first algorithm which was intended to be processed by a machine making her the first programmer. Her name has been credited in the programming language Ada.
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Invented the Arithmometer.
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He redisgned and improved his father's invention and which was able to able to calculate the first 40 multiples of Pi pricely with 29 decimal places.
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Inventor of the mechanical tabulator based on punch cards which provide data for the machine. He was the founder of the Tabulating Machine Company which later merged and became IBM.
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Reconstructed Henry Babbage's design of the Mill using electromechanical devices.
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Is considered to be the father of computer science provide the blueprints of for the electronic digital computer.
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The Z1 built by Germany's Konrad Zuse is considered to be the first modern computer.
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Constructed the first programmable calculator for the IMB company named ASCC/Mark I.
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As a mathematician and a scientist, he designed a computer architecture for the EDVAC which is later adopted by daily modern computers.
