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Life of Computers

By rachel.rigby96
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    The Abacus

    The Abacus
    In 3000 bc, the abacus is invented in Babylonia. An abacus is a device for calculating used by sliding beads back and forth on a rod.

  • Mechanical Calculator

    Mechanical Calculator
    Samuel Morland builds a mechanical calculator that will add and subtract.

  • Binary Mathmatics

    Binary Mathmatics
    Leibniz introduces binary mathematics

  • Multiplying Calculator

    Multiplying Calculator
    The third Earl of Stanhope invents a multiplying calculator.

  • Computer basics

    Computer basics
    George Boole develops Boolean Logic which will one day become the basis for computer logic

  • Electric typewriter

    Electric typewriter
    IBM introduces the electric typewriter

  • Iphone

    Iphone
    The first Iphone (technically a handheld computer) was introduced.

  • IPad

    IPad
    The IPad was introduced.

  • Whirlwind Computer

    The Whirlwind computer, the first real-time computer, is developed by Jay Forrester and his team at MIT

  • The Antikythera Mechanism

    The Antikythera Mechanism
    In 87 AD, the Antikythera Mechanism was made. It is believed that this instrument was a kind of mechanical analog computer used to calculate the movements of stars and planets in astronomy