COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Blaise Pascal
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Martin Lawrence
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Steve Jobs
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Herman Hollerith
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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: -Blaise Pascal was a French philosopher, mathematician, scientist, inventor, and theologian. In mathematics, he was an early pioneer in the fields of game theory and probability theory. In philosophy he was an early pioneer in existentialism. As a writer on theology and religion he was a defender of Christianity.