COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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500 BC
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1642
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1673
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1801
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Detailed explanation-1: -Step Reckoner, a calculating machine designed (1671) and built (1673) by the German mathematician-philosopher Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz . The Step Reckoner expanded on the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal’s ideas and did multiplication by repeated addition and shifting.
Detailed explanation-2: -The stepped reckoner or Leibniz calculator was a mechanical calculator invented by the German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and completed in 1694. The name comes from the translation of the German term for its operating mechanism, Staffelwalze, meaning “stepped drum".
Detailed explanation-3: -1673-Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1646-1716) He invented a calculating machine known as Leibniz’s Wheel or the Step Reckoner. It could add and subtract, like Pascal’s machine, but it could also multiply and divide.