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Computer Chronicles: From Stone to Silicon
Before Computers

3000bc
*Invention of the abacus.

1500
*Mechanical calculator invented by Leonardo da Vinci.

1621
*Slide rule invented.

1640
*Blaise Pascal invents the Arithmetic Machine.

1800
*First punch cards for storing data invented by Jacquard.

1822
*Charles Babbage invents the Difference Engine.

1830
*Charles Babbage invents the Analytical Engine.

1857
*Sir Charles Wheatstone uses paper tape to store data.

1926
*First patent for semiconductor transistor.

1936
*Dvorak keyboard created.

1937
*Alan Turing invents the Turing Test.

1940
*Konrad Zuse completes the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer of the world.

1943
*First electronic general purpose computer: ENIAC

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