| Year |
Event |
| 1600 |
William
Gilbert coins the term electricity from the Greek word elecktra. |
| 1617 |
John Napier introduced a system
called "Napiers Bones," made from horn, bone or ivory
the device allowed the capability of multiplying by adding numbers
and dividing by subtracting. |
| 1622 |
The circular slide rule is invented
by William Oughtred. |
| 1623 |
The first known workable mechanical
calculating machine is invented by Germanys Wilhelm Schickard. |
| 1642 |
Frances Blaise Pascal invents a
machine, called the Pascaline, that can add, subtract, and carry
between digits. |
| 1674 |
Germanys Gottfried Wilhelm
Leibnitz creates a machine that can add, subtract, multiply and
divide automatically. |
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