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In 1617 an eccentric (some people say mad) Scotsman named John Napier invented logarithms, which is a technology that allows multiplication to be performed via addition.
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The first gear-driven calculating machine to actually be built was probably the calculating clock, invented by the German professor Wilhem Schickard.
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the French mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal,
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spacewar computer game In 1961 the ´Spacewar Computer Game´ was invented
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A german matematitian, Golfried Whilhem Liebnitz introduced the binary system.
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In France Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards to automatically wavy fabric designers.Early computers would use similar punch cards.
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The analytical engineIn 1837 Charles Babbage invented the analytical engine
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First computer algorithm In 1843, Ada Lovelance developed the first computer algorithms
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The incompleteness theorem
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Alan Turing presented the notion of a universal machine, later called the Turing machine, capable of computing anything that is computable. The central concept of the modern computer was based on his ideas
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Konrad Zuse invented Z3 , the first programmable digital computer
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William Shockley, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain of Bell Laboratories invented the transistor. They discovered how to make an electric switch with solid
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The IBM computer was invented.
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In the summer of 1958 Jack Kilby at Texas invented the integrated circuit. Our world is full of integrated circuits. You find several of them in computers.
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the computer mouse
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A group of developers at Bell Labs produced UNIX, an operating system, it became the operating system of choice among mainframes at large companies and government entities.
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It was the first Dynamic Access Memory (DRAM) chip
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Robert Metcalfe, a member of the research staff for Xerox, develops Ethernet for connecting multiple computers and other hardware.
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windows 1.0In 1985, Microsoft realeased Windows 1.0
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Google estimates the Internet contained about 1.2 millions TB of data.
