Computers
The Computer that you know these days is a small thing that sits on a desk in your room that is composed of a monitor, keyboard, mouse and a small box. But computers have changed so much that if you seen old computer you would never recognize it. The first computer was built in the early 17 hundreds. You probably heard that the first computer was made in the 1950's but computers have been around for hundreds of years.
All a computer is is something that calculates number. So these computers of the 1700's were made from gears that worked together to make a answer. "In the nineteenth century, Englishman Charles Babbage designed a steam powered machine that could calculate square roots, cube roots and other exponential functions." (1) The first computer was an abacus. "The Chinese abacus consists of a wooden frame divided into an upper and lower section." (2) These are all computer that have been around 100's of years.
Latter in the 20th century the government started......
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