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For a long time, calculating meant human hands and geared machines. The first electronic computers appeared in the 1940s and filled entire rooms. The transistor and then the chip made them small and fast. Today they are everywhere. Each generation overturned the one before.
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by Charles Xavier Thomas
On 18 November 1820 a former army administration officer filed a patent for a machine "able to take the place of memory in all operations of arithmetic". No example made from the patent has been found.
Photo: Ezrdr (Public domain)
by John Vincent Atanasoff
An Iowa professor and his student Clifford Berry built one of the first electronic calculators. The machine was not programmable and stayed little known.
Photo: User:Manop (CC BY-SA 3.0)
by Craig Reynolds
A few simple rules are enough to make a flock of birds fly on a screen. Each agent reacts to its neighbours and complexity emerges from their interaction.
Photo: Ænthaüs (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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