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Mechanical Computer Design

A computing device or design built from mechanical rather than electrical or electronic components. Belongs here: Analytical Engine, the atlas's sole mechanical-computer-design entity, Charles Babbage's nineteenth-century design for a general-purpose mechanical computer, never completed in his lifetime. Does not belong here: any electronic or electromechanical machine, filed under Early Computer.

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1642 CE 1
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1. Wikipedia: Pascaline
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The Pascaline (also known as the arithmetic machine or Pascal's calculator) is a mechanical calculator invented by Blaise Pascal in 1642.
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