The Story of the Computer

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    Blaise Pascal invented a mechanical calculator dubbed Pascaline

  • Gottfried Leibniz invented the Leibniz Wheel

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    The creation of the first machine ever that used the idea of storage and programming

  • Charles Babbage invented the Difference Engine

  • The invention of the tabulating machine

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    Mark I was a huge electromechanical protocomputer that was built by Howard Aiken. The Mark I was followed by three more advanced computing machines (Mark II-IV).

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    The Z1 (a general-purpose mechanical computer) was built by Konrad Zuse

  • The creation of ABC (Atanasoff Berry Computer) by Jhon V. Atanasoff and his assistant Cliffort Berry

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    Tommy Flowers and his team invented the Colossus, the world’s first programmable electronic digital computer

  • The first general-purpose, totally electronic computer (ENIAC) was made by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert

  • The first computer to be designed based on von Neumann’s concept was the EDVAC