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In France Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom that uses punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs. early computers would use similar punch cards.
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English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers.
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Herman Hollerith designs a punch card system to calculate the 1880 census.
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Alan Turing presents the notion of a machine called the Turing machine that could compute anything that can be computed.
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J.V. Atanasoff attempts to build the first computer without moving parts.
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Was founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett.