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Person Involved Inventions Description Date Invented

The document lists 10 inventors and inventions related to early calculating devices and computers. It provides the name of the inventor, invention, a brief description of what it was invented, and the year invented for each entry. Some key inventions mentioned include Napier's Bones, the first manually operated calculating device (1617); the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator (1642); Babbage's Analytical Engine, an early automatic computing engine (1837); the Hollerith Card used to store data on punched cards (1890); and the ENIAC, one of the first general purpose electronic digital computers (1943-1944).

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Person Involved Inventions Description Date Invented

The document lists 10 inventors and inventions related to early calculating devices and computers. It provides the name of the inventor, invention, a brief description of what it was invented, and the year invented for each entry. Some key inventions mentioned include Napier's Bones, the first manually operated calculating device (1617); the Pascaline, an early mechanical calculator (1642); Babbage's Analytical Engine, an early automatic computing engine (1837); the Hollerith Card used to store data on punched cards (1890); and the ENIAC, one of the first general purpose electronic digital computers (1943-1944).

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Cristine I. Valenzuela ICT 001 SAT.

7:30-10:30
BEED Dr. Marygin E. Sarmiento

PERSON DATE
INVOLVED INVENTIONS DESCRIPTION
INVENTED
1. John Napier Napier’s Bone Manually- Operated 1617
Calculating Device
2. William Oughtred Oughtred’s Slide Rule Its movable bars for
solving problem like 1622
multiplication and
division, roots,
logarithms and
trigonometry
3. Blaise Pascal Pascaline Calculator Adding Machine 1642

4. Gottfried Leibniz Leibniz Calculator ( stepped drum) 1672


Improved PASCALINE Completed 1694
for multiply and divide

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5. Charles Babbage Babbage’s Difference Automatic Computing 1837
and Analytical Engines Engines

6. Herman Hollerith Hollerith Card Used for punched card 1890


to store data

7. Joseph Marie Automatic Weaving Uses the concept


Jacquard Loom punched card to control 1804
a sequence of operation

8. Howard H. Aiken Automatic Sequence Uses electrical switches 1944


Controlled Calculator and circuitry
( MARK 1)

9.John Atanasoft ABC ( Atanasoft-Berry- Digital Computer that 1942


Computer) solves simultaneous
equations
10. John Mauchly and Electronic Numerical It is electronic general 1943
J. Presper Eckert Integrator and purpose in digital Completed 1944
Calculator ( ENIAC) computer

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