COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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What gear inside the Stepped Reckoner was an important invention?
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The IBM Gear
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The Leibniz Wheel
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The Incremental Gear
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The Hollerith Drum
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Modern replica of the Staffelwalze, or Stepped Reckoner, a digital calculating machine invented by Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz around 1672 and built around 1700, on display in the Technische Sammlungen museum in Dresden, Germany.
Detailed explanation-2: -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.
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