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Blaise Pascal creates a mechanical adding “Pascaline” with gears and wheels.
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Wilhelm Leibniz creates the calculating machine, capable of multiplying, dividing, and extracting square roots, using the binary system. Its structure was similar to the Pascalina.
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This year the notes on the progress of the "Analytical Machine" were published, designed together with Ada Lovelace. The computer was to solve any mathematical operation. Baddage died without being able to finish it.
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George Boole presents his work of Logico symbolic, where it shows the Algebra of Boole. His algebra was a method of solving logic problems by means of binary values (1 and 0) and three operators: and (and), or (or) and not (NO).
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Herman Hollerith patent the perforating machine, which contains information in the form of perforations according to a binary code, that is, according to whether it was perforated or not in certain positions, answered questions with a yes or No. However, the use of perforated cards originated in the Jacquard loom.
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John Atanasoff invented an analogue calculator for surface geometry analysis
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John von Neumann, John Mauchly and others, created the ENIAC coding system. It was initially designed to calculate artillery shooting charts for the United States Army Ballistic Research Laboratory
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Linus Torvals developed the Linux operating system based on Minix, with the aim of achieving an operating system that motivates the development of free code.