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Joseph Marie Jacquard invents a loom and it was used punched wooden cards to automatically weave fabric designs.
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Charles Babbage invents of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers
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Ada Lovelace and the daughter of poet Lord Byron writes the world's first computer program.
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Swedish inventor Per Georg Scheutz and his son Edvard create the world's first printing calculator
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Herman Hollerith invents a punch-card system to help calculate the 1890 U.S. Census.
