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The document lists various historical calculating machines along with their invention dates, inventors, structures, functionalities, and diagrams. It includes notable devices such as the Abacus, Napier's Bone, Pascaline, and the Analytical Engine, highlighting their contributions to arithmetic and computation. The progression from mechanical to electrical computing is illustrated through inventions up to the Mark-I in 1944.

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History

The document lists various historical calculating machines along with their invention dates, inventors, structures, functionalities, and diagrams. It includes notable devices such as the Abacus, Napier's Bone, Pascaline, and the Analytical Engine, highlighting their contributions to arithmetic and computation. The progression from mechanical to electrical computing is illustrated through inventions up to the Mark-I in 1944.

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Machine Invented in Invented by Structure Functionality Diagram

Abacus Unknown Chinese Consist of Arithmetic


beads or calculation
stones on rods
or wires
Napier’s bone 1617 Scottish 9 strips Multiply and
mathematician , marked with didvide using
John Napier numerals decimal
system
Pascaline 1642 French Wooden box Mechanical
mathematician, with gears and and automated
Bliaise Pascal wheels calculator, first
device that
had slots to
display results
Stepped 1673 Leibniz Grooved Digital
recknor wheels mechanical
calculator
Difference 1820 Charles Steamed Could solve
engine Babbage power basic
computer with calculations
gear wheels
and rods
Analytical 1830 Charles Mechanical Solved
engine Babbage computer took mathematical
input from problems by
punched cards storing data in
memory
Tabulating 1890 Heman Punched card Helped with
Machine Hollerith, based processing of
American mechanical data in census
calculator,
compute and
record data
Differential 1930 Vannevar Bush First electrical
Analyzer computer ,

Mark-I 1944 Howard Aiken 50 ft long, Could add


8 ft high three eight
Weighed5 tons digit numbers
3000 switches in one second,
Takes input
from punched
card, shows
output via
typewriter

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