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Key Points: Compact Disc History The first workable digital compact disc device, the precursor on now-ubiquitous CD/DVDs, was invented in the late […]
: Modern-day display technologies continue to improve with each passing year, but throughout the mid-1900s, they didn’t really move an […]
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About the Thermionic Tube: Thermionic Tube History The thermionic tube has gone by many names throughout the timeline of its […]
about Audion Vacuum Tube Audion Vacuum Tube: History Gas flames had been electrically conductive since about the middle of the […]
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IC stands for integrated circuit. This specifically refers to the use of condensed circuitry instead of the older methods […]
about Tabulating Machines Some significant facts about Tabulating machines are as follows. Tabulating Machine: History The Tabulating Machine was made for […]
Optical character recognition, often abbreviated as OCR, plays an enormous part in the text recognition software many of us rely […]
: Universal Serial Bus Specs Versions Maximum Data Transfer Speed Connector Types Maximum Cable Length Maximum Charging Power USB 1 12MBps Type A & Type B 3m 500mA USB-2 480Mpbs Supports all […]
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: Mechanical Calculators: History Up to the end of the 17th century, among the most prominent polymaths and encyclopedic scientists of […]
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Pascaline Calculator History Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline Calculator. Pascal was considered a child prodigy and was gifted in a […]
: Victor Adding Machine Victor Adding Machine Co. was established in Chicago in 1918, with the chief designer (and one of […]
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Dalton Adding Machine James Lewis Dalton (1866-1926) (see biography of James Lewis Dalton) was a successful businessman and amateur mechanic from […]
4 Facts About Curta Calculator Some major facts about the Curta calculator are as follows: Due to its design and mode of […]
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3 Facts about Winter’s Keyboard Adder Winter’s Keyboard Adder History On April 12, 1859, Caroline Winter presented her Keyboard, which was called […]
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Twilight of the gods – 20th century The 20th century is a time of ubiquity and decline of mechanical calculating machines. […]
Long before the hand-held calculators, there was the millionaire calculator machine—a large, clunky, and expensive mechanical machine that performed direct […]
History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical calculators, 18th century, Victor Schilt’s keyboard adder : Victor Schilt The calculating machine of the […]
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Saxonia Calculating Machine History Saxonia was among the first mechanical calculator invented by three Mechanics working in the factory of […]
About the Tate-Layton Machine The Tate-Layton machine was largely based on the work of Thomas de Colmar and other […]
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Four Facts About Tito Gonnella’s Adding Machines Tito Gonnella’s Adding Machines History The Italian scientist and inventor Tito Filippo Gonnella (1794–1867), professor […]
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4 Facts about the Arithmometer of Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer History During his lengthy stay with the armies of Marchall Soult, where […]
Four Facts About Comptometer Comptometer: History In 1884, a young machinist named Dorr Eugene Felt at Ostrander and Huke machine workshop in Chicago observed […]
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3 Facts About The Burroughs Adding Machine The Burroughs Adding Machine can still be purchased today from sites like eBay, […]
The Conquering of the World — 19th century More than two centuries elapsed between the introduction of the first mechanical calculator […]
