Calculating Machine
Although the abacus, the first tool of calculation, has existed since ancient times, advanced calculating machines did not appear until the early 1600s. Scientists and mathematicia...
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Babbage's Engine
The British scientist Charles Babbage (1791-1871) designed mechanical calculating machines many years before the computer age. Babbage lived during the Victorian era, when mathematici...
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Calculating Machine
Babbage's Engine