BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Blaise Pascal
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Albert Einstein
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Ada Lovelace
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Charles Babbage
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Detailed explanation-1: -Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.
Detailed explanation-2: -Pascal invented the first digital calculator to help his father with his work collecting taxes. He worked on it for three years between 1642 and 1645. The device, called the Pascaline, resembled a mechanical calculator of the 1940s.
Detailed explanation-3: -This time, we would like to show you the oldest preserved calculating machine from the year 1642. It was invented by mathematician and philosopher Blaise Pascal in Rouen at the age of 19.
Detailed explanation-4: -Pascal’s invention of the mechanical calculator in the early 1640s was born out of a desire to help his father in collecting taxes. He was the second person known to have created a device of this kind. A company by the name of Schickard had manufactured a type of mechanical calculator in 1624.