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    The document provides a brief history of computing from 2400 BC to 1936 AD. It describes some of the earliest calculating tools like the abacus invented in Babylon in 2400 BC. It then summarizes the invention of early mechanical calculating machines in the 1600s by Wilhelm Schickard, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz. In the 1800s, it discusses Charles Babbage's proposed Difference Engine and the 1890 Census Tabulating Machine invented by Herman Hollerith. Finally, it notes Alan Turing introduced the idea of a universal machine that could simulate any other machine through reading instructions and data from a tape in 1936.

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    The document provides a brief history of computing from 2400 BC to 1936 AD. It describes some of the earliest calculating tools like the abacus invented in Babylon in 2400 BC. It then summarizes the invention of early mechanical calculating machines in the 1600s by Wilhelm Schickard, Blaise Pascal, and Gottfried Leibniz. In the 1800s, it discusses Charles Babbage's proposed Difference Engine and the 1890 Census Tabulating Machine invented by Herman Hollerith. Finally, it notes Alan Turing introduced the idea of a universal machine that could simulate any other machine through reading instructions and data from a tape in 1936.

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    THE

    HISTORY OF
    COMPUTING
    COMPUTING
    is any goal-oriented activity requiring,
    benefiting from, or creating computing
    machinery. It includes the study and
    experimentation of
    algorithmic  processes and development
    of both hardware  and software . It has
    scientific, engineering, mathematical,
    technological and social aspects.
    2400 BC

    ABACUS
     The earliest known tool
    for use in computation
     This was the first known
    calculation aid
     It was thought to have
    been invented in
    Babylon circa 2400 BC
    1623

    SCHICKARD'S
    CALCULATIN
    G CLOCK

     The first gear-driven


    calculating machine to
    actually be built was
    probably , named by its
    inventor, the German
    Professor Wilhelm
    Schickard.
    1642

    PASCAL’S PASCALINE
     The first Mechanical
    Adding Machine
     Invented by Blaise
    Pascal, at age 19, he
    invented this as an aid for
    his father who was a tax
    collector.
    1660
    LEIBNIZ’S
    STEPPED
    RECKONER
     A four-function (addition,
    subtraction, multiplication,
    and division) calculator
     Managed to build by German
    Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
     Leibniz was the first to
    advocate use of binary
    number system which is
    fundamental to the operation
    of modern computers.
    1822

    BABBAGE’S
    DIFFERENCE
    ENGINE
     A steam driven
    calculating machine
     Proposed by the English
    Mathematician Charles
    Babbage
     This machine would be
    able to compute tables of
    numbers , such as
    logarithm tables.
    1890

    CENSUS TABULATING
    MACHINE
     An electromechanical
    machine designed to assist
    in summarizing information
    stored on punched cards.
     Invented by Herman
    Hollerith, the machine was
    developed to help process
    data for the 1890 U.S
    Census.
    1936

    UNIVERSAL MACHINE
     The universal machine
    essentially achieves this by
    reading both the description
    of the machine to be
    simulated as well as the
    input to that machine from
    its own tape.
     Alan Turing  introduced the
    idea of such a machine in
    1936–1937.

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