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computer historyJohn Napier introduced a system called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers and dividing by subtracting.
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Timespan for computer history
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computer historycomputer historyThe circular slide rule is invented by William Oughtred.
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computer historyThe first known workable mechanical calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm Schickard. The machine is based on the idea of Napier's Bones, mentioned earlier.
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computer historyGottfried Leibniz introduces the Step Reckoner, a device that can multiply, divide, and evaluate square roots.
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computer historyClaude Chappe invents a semaphore line, a method of communicating over long distances.
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computer historyComputer HistoryFrances Joseph-Marie Jacquard completes his fully automated loom that is programmed by punched cards.
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computer historyCharles Xavier Thomas de Colmar creates the "Arithometer", the first reliable, useful, and commercially successful calculating machine. The calculator could not only add but also subtract, multiply, and divide.
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computer historyHarrison Dyar becomes the first person in the United States to invent a Telegraph type device.
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computer historySamuel Morse invents a code (later called Morse code) that used different numbers to represent the letters of the English alphabet and the ten digits.
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Radio signals were invented by Guglielmo Marconi
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computer historyRemote control was invented by Nikola Tesla
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computer historyRemington advertised the Dalton adding machine as the first 10-key printing adding machine.[42] The 10 keys were set on two rows. Six machines had been manufactured by the end of 1906
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computer historyPhilo Farnsworth: Television Electronic was invented by Philo Farnsworth
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computer historyThe first freely programmable computer came into play.
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computer historyHoward Aiken and Grace Hopper designed the MARK series of computers at Harvard University
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computer historyThe transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself'but it was a vital computer component.
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computer historyInternational Business Machines came out with their first computer machine.
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computer historyJack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit'better known as the computer chip
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computer historyDouglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse. He called it the mouse because the cord came out the back like a tail.
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computer historyThe first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.