1600's

Blaise Pascal creates the Pascaline, or Pascal's calculator
Francis Bacon first uses binary
John Napier invents logarithms
Richard Braithwaite first uses the word 'computer'
Samuel Morland builds a mechanical calculator
Wilhelm Schickard invents a calculating machine
William Oughtred invents the slide rule

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