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Calculating Machines and Computing
Invention Date Inventor Nationality
Adding machine *
1642 Blaise Pascal French
Platform scales 1830 Thaddeus Fairbanks American
Cash register 1879 James Ritty American
Comptometer 1885 Dorr E. Felt American
Adding machine 1888 W. Burroughs American
Mechanical computer 1928 Vannevar Bush American
Automatic digital computer 1944 Howard Aiken American
Electronic digital computer 1946 J.P. Eckert
J.W. Mauchly
American
American
Electronic pocket calculator 1972 J.S. Kilby
J.D. Merryman
American
American
Jerry D. Merryman as an inventor - 9 patents listing
Supercomputer 1976 J.H. Van Tassel American
Parallel computing 1979 Seymour R. Cray, Jr.
David Gelernter
American
American
16 patents listing Seymour R. Cray, Jr. as an (co)inventor.