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    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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    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

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    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

    pg. 1
    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

    pg. 2

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