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Logic Diagrams Logic Machines 350 Million Years BC: The First Tetrapods Leave the Oceans 20,000 years BC: Carving Notches Into Bones 1900 BC: The First Place-Value Number System 1000 BC: The Invention of the Abacus 300 BC: The First Use of Zero and Negative Numbers 1274 AD: Ramon Lull's Ars Magna 1285 AD: William of Ockham's Logical Transformations 1434 AD: The First Self-Striking Water Clock 1500 AD: Leonardo da Vinci's Mechanical Calculator 1600 AD: John Napier and Napier's Bones 1625 AD: Wilhelm Schickard's Mechanical Calculator 1640 AD: Blaise Pascal's Arithmetic Machine 1670 AD: Gottfried von Leibniz's Step Reckoner 1714 AD: The First English Typewriter Patent 1726 AD: Jonathan Swift writes Gulliver's Travels 1800 AD: Jacquard's Punched Cards 1822 AD: Charles Babbage's Difference Engine 1829 AD: The First American Typewriter Patent 1830 AD: Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine 1834 AD: Tally Sticks: The Hidden Dangers 1837 AD: Samuel Morse Invents the Electric Telegraph 1847 AD: George Boole Invents Boolean Algebra 1857 AD: Sir Charles Wheatstone Uses Paper Tape to Store Data 1867 AD: The First Commercial Typewriter 1874 AD: The Sholes (QWERTY) Keyboard 1878 AD: The First True Incandescent Light Bulb 1880 AD: The First Printing Telegraphs 1883 AD: The Invention of the Vacuum Tube 1890 AD: Herman Hollerith's Tabulating Machines 1902 AD: The First Teleprinters 1921 AD: Karel Capek's R.U.R. (Rossum's Universal Robots) 1926 AD: The First Transistors 1927 AD: Vannevar Bush's Analog Computer -- The Differential Analyser 1936 AD: The Dvorak Keyboard 1937 AD: Alan Turing invents the Turing Machine 1937 AD: George Robert Stibitz's Complex Number Calculator 1938 AD: Claude Shannon's master's Thesis 1939 AD: John Vincent Atanasoff's Special-Purpose Electronic Digital Computer 1939 AD: Howard Aiken's Harvard Mark I (the IBM ASCC) 1941 AD: Konrad Zuse and his Z1, Z3, and Z4 1943 AD: Alan Turing and COLOSSUS 1943 AD: The first general-purpose electronic computer -- ENIAC 1944 AD: Johann (John) Von Neumann writes the "First Draft" 1945 AD: The "First" Computer Bug 1946 AD: The First Stored Program Computer -- EDVAC 1952 AD: The First Integrated Circuits 1962 AD: The "Worst" Computer Bug 1971 AD: The First Microprocessors 1973 AD: The First Personal Computers (PCs) 1997 AD: The First Beboputer Virtual Computer The Ancient Egyptians Mercury Delay Lines as Computer Memory Relays as Electromagnetic Switches Further Reading
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