-the first man-made -in 1612, John Napier’s a

computing device mathematician from

-used in South America
Scotland, invented the
-possible with some skills for counting and recording
Napier’s rods
and practice to make
-usually consisted of
rapid calculations -used to multiply and
knots and strings or
divide numbers
threads
-In 1994, Hungarian- Abacus -first to use decimal
American mathematician points.
John von Neumann developed
Quipu Napier’s rods
the Electronic Discrete
Variable Automatic
Computer EDVAC
-used in South America
-solve problem in for counting and recording
mathematics and
-usually consisted of
meteorology
knots and strings or
threads

-In 1939, John Vincent Side rule

Atanasoft and Clifftord
Berry built a computing
device called the
Atanasoff-Berry Computer
or ABC
-In 1623, German
-first computer to
scientist Wilhelm
separate data processing
from memory
Schickard invented a
ABC machine that could add,
subtract, multiply, and
divide
-In 1674. German
-In 1841, French inventor Schickard’s calculator
mathematician Gottfried
Joseph-Marie Jacquard
Wilhelm von Leibnitz made
devised the Jacquard’s loom
improvement on the
-With the use of cards Pascaline -In 1642, French
punched with holes, it was mathematician Blaise Pascal
possible for Jacquard’s loom -the machine was able to
invented an adding machine
to weave fabrics in a divide and multiply as easily
based on the abacus
variety of patterns as it could add and subtract
-Pascal used wheels to move
Jacquard’s Leibnitz’s
the counter.
loom Calculator
Pascalline