COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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Howard Aiken
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Blaise Pascal
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J.P. Eckert and John Mauchly
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Charles Babbage
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644. It could only do addition and subtraction, with numbers being entered by manipulating its dials.
Detailed explanation-2: -Statue of Blaise Pascal in Paris. His invention of the Pascaline made him famous. On May 22, 1649, Pascal received a patent, or what was then called a privilege, on the arithmetic machine. The Pascaline soon become well-known in France and abroad.
Detailed explanation-3: -In 1642, while still a teenager, he started some pioneering work on calculating machines (called Pascal’s calculators and later Pascalines), establishing him as one of the first two inventors of the mechanical calculator.