Berry. But the history of computing started centuries earlier. For example, in 1493 Leonardo da Vinci drew a sketch of what appears to be a mechanical calculator. And the first calculating machine ...

Seventy years ago today (Thursday 21 st, June) a landmark development in the history of computing took place at The University of Manchester. At 11am on 21 June, 1948 the Small Scale Experimental ...

Bill Gates and Paul Allen form Traf-O-Data in 1971 to sell their computer traffic-analysis systems. 1972: Gary Kildall writes PL/M, the first high-level programming language for the Intel ...

The Foundation of Everything - Is light a particle? Is light a wave? Let's take a look at Thomas Young's famous double-slit ...

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