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Possibly the abacus, a board with wood rods, and wood beads on the rods. It is thousands of years old.
The first electronic computer, I think, was Univac. It used vacuum tubes instead of solid state devices to do its computing.
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∙ 13y agoIn 1642 Frenchman Blaise Pascal (1623-1662) invented the first adding machine, called the Arithmetic Machine. Gottfried Leibniz (1646-1716) expanded on Pascal's ideas and in 1671 developed the "step reckoner,"
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∙ 14y agoThe name of first calculating machine is known as ABACUS.
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∙ 13y agoEssentially yes, the first computer was the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), which had the capability to add roughly 5000 numbers in one second.
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What is the average weight of a computer in the early 1940s?
Electronic computers in the sense that we know them today did not exist in the early 1940s. When the first digital machines were developed near the end of WW2 they were either very specialized calculating machines and so did not have a "typical" configuration, or were enormous, room-sized devices weighing many thousands of pounds.
What year was the word computer first used to describe a mechanical calculating device?
yes indeed young sir!
What were the calculating devices before the invention of computer?
The earliest recorded calculating device is the abacus. Used as a simple computing device for performing arithmetic, the abacus most likely appeared first in Babylonia (now Iraq) over 5000 years ago.
What year was the first computer used?
The first computer was used in 1938. It was used in Germany. Then, in 1943, IBM released a computer that could be purchased by companies. This computer was first used by Harvard.
What is the meaning of computer?
Prior to the 1940s, computers were humans paid to do computation. Usually they had mathematics degrees but spent all day calculating with manually operated desk calculators.After the 1940s, computers were machines replacing the humans that used to do those jobs. However the best displaced human computers became the programmers of the machines.
Who started the calculating and accounting machines industry?
Charles Xavier Thomas, of France, is credited with starting the calculating and accounting machines industry when he introduced the arithmometer in the 1870s.
When calculating simple interest you should first?
When calculating simple interest, you should first
What is a caculator?
an expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines)a small machine that is used for mathematical calculations
What is a calculor?
An expert at calculation (or at operating calculating machines). Main keys are adding subtracting multiplication and dividing.
Computer is which type of machine?
Infact computers re calculating machines any task they perform is a calculation for the given data to them
What did early machines first run on?
What did early machines first run on
What has the author George Alan Montgomerie written?
George Alan Montgomerie has written: 'Digital calculating machines' -- subject(s): Calculators
What year did William Seward Burroughs invent first calculating machine?
he filed the patent for his first calculating machine in 1885 then improved one in in 1892
What are various calculating devices are?
Pencil and paper, abacus, mechanical calculator, log tables, electronic calculator (or computer), proportional weighing machines.
When were cars first built by machines?
Machines were used to build even the first automobiles.
Which is the first electronic calculating machine?
arithmetic machine
When and where was the first calculating device developed?
In China in 1960
