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Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine
English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project, funded by the English government, is a failure. More than a century later, however, the world's first computer was actually built. Watch video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qctHEGKr9Zs Photo credit: https://www.livescience.com/20718-computer-history.html -
Hewlett-Packard is founded
Hewlett-Packard is founded by David Packard and Bill Hewlett in a Palo Alto, California, garage, according to the Computer History Museum. Photo credit: https://www.pcworld.com/article/2691932/hp-reportedly-set-to-split-off-pc-printer-business.html
