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Leonardo da Vinci was born on April 15, 1452 -
Leonardo da Vinci made a drawing of a 13-digit cog-wheeled adder. -
Leonardo da Vinci invented the mechanical calculator. -
The first known workable mechanical calculating machine was invented by Wilhelm Schickard. The machine was based on the idea of Napier's Bones, mentioned earlier. -
William Gilbert coined the term electricity from the Greek word elecktra. -
Alternatively known as the Pascal's Adder, Pascale, or Pascalene, Pascaline is a calculating machine developed and built by Blaise Pascal in 1642. The Pascaline was capable of mathematical operations, such as adding, subtracting, and carrying 10s, 100s, and 1000s. -
Isaac Newton was born on December 25, 1642.
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Gottfried Leibniz was born on July 1, 1646. -
Binary is a base-2 number system invented by Gottfried Leibniz that's made up of only two numbers or digits: 0 (zero) and 1 (one). This numbering system is the basis for all binary code, which writes digital data such as the computer processor instructions used with your devices every day. -
The first writing device (similar to a typewriter) to be patented was patented by Henry Mill in London England. -
The first telegraph was built. -
Frances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completed his fully automated loom in 1804 programmed by punched cards. -
In early 1822, Charles Babbage began developing the Difference Engine, which included the first mechanical printer. -
The first successful Trans-Atlantic cable was laid from Ireland to Newfoundland.
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), the first general-purpose electronic digital calculator, began to be constructed. This computer, by most, is considered to be the first electronic computer. -
The Mark 1 Colossus computer became operational on February 5, 1944. The computer was the first binary and partially programmable computer created at Bletchley Park.
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The Von Neumann Architecture and a description of a general-purpose electronic digital computer with stored programs were introduced in John von Neumann's report of the EDVAC (Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer).
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MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) introduced the Whirlwind machine on March 8, 1955, a revolutionary computer that was the first digital computer with magnetic core RAM (random-access memory) and real-time graphics. -
Kenbak-1. The Kenbak-1, released in early 1971, is considered by the Computer History Museum to be the world's first personal computer. It was designed and invented by John Blankenbaker of Kenbak Corporation in 1970, and was first sold in early 1971. -
Bro got a computer next to the couch??????