Inventor that have modified our life
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Calculating
Machines and Computing
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| Invention | Date | Inventor | Nationality |
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Adding
machine *
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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. | |||
