COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Stepped Reckoner
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Schickard
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Steve
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Pascal
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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: -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: -The principle was first enunciated by the French scientist Blaise Pascal. Pressure is equal to the force divided by the area on which it acts. According to Pascal’s principle, in a hydraulic system a pressure exerted on a piston produces an equal increase in pressure on another piston in the system.