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MARKS OF ESTEEM
INVENTIONS THAT MODIFIED OUR LIFE
| Calculating
Machines and Computing |
| Invention |
Date |
Inventor |
Nationality |
| Adding
machine * |
1642
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Blaise
Pascal |
French |
| Platform
scales |
1830
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Thaddeus
Fairbanks |
American |
| Cash
register |
1879 |
James
Ritty |
American |
| Comptometer
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1885
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Dorr
E. Felt |
American |
| Adding
machine |
1888
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W.
Burroughs |
American |
| Mechanical
computer |
1928
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Vannevar
Bush |
American |
| Automatic
digital computer |
1944
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Howard
Aiken |
American |
| Electronic
digital computer |
1946
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J.P.
Eckert
J.W. Mauchly |
American
American |
| Electronic
pocket calculator |
1972
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J.S.
Kilby
J.D. Merryman |
American
American |
| Jerry
D. Merryman as an inventor
- 9 patents listing |
| Supercomputer
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1976
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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. |
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