Babbage's first attempt at a mechanical computing device, the Difference Engine, was a special-purpose calculator designed to tabulate logarithms and trigonometric functions by evaluating finite differences to create approximating polynomials.

* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).

The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only means of transportation, a VW van and Wozniak sold his HP-65 calculator for $ 500.

Later, the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 AD in ancient Greece, was the first mechanical calculator utilizing gears of various sizes and configuration to perform calculations, which tracked the metonic cycle still used in lunar-to-solar calendars, and which is consistent for calculating the dates of the Olympiads.

The first solid state electronic calculator was created in the 1960s, building on the extensive history of tools such as the abacus, developed around 2000 BC ; and the mechanical calculator, developed in the 17th century.

The Arithmometer, invented in 1820 as a four-operation mechanical calculator, was released to production in 1851 as an adding machine and became the first commercially successful unit ; forty years later, by 1890, about 2, 500 arithmometers had been sold plus a few hundreds more from two arithmometer clone makers ( Burkhardt, Germany, 1878 and Layton, UK, 1883 ) and Felt and Tarrant, the only other competitor in true commercial production, had sold 100 comptometers.

The Casio Computer Company, in Japan, released the Model 14-A calculator in 1957, which was the world's first all-electric ( relatively ) " compact " calculator.

However, the efforts in integrated circuit development culminated in the introduction in early 1971 of the first " calculator on a chip ", the MK6010 by Mostek, followed by Texas Instruments later in the year.

and General Instrument also introduced their first collaboration in ICs, a complete single chip calculator IC for the Monroe Royal Digital III calculator.

The first truly pocket-sized electronic calculator was the Busicom LE-120A " HANDY ", which was marketed early in 1971.

Made in Japan, this was also the first calculator to use an LED display, the first hand-held calculator to use a single integrated circuit ( then proclaimed as a " calculator on a chip "), the Mostek MK6010, and the first electronic calculator to run off replaceable batteries.

More advanced methods of locating objects in the sky include telescope mounts with setting circles, which assist with pointing telescopes to positions in the sky that are known to contain objects of interest, and GOTO telescopes, which are fully automated telescopes that are capable of locating objects on demand ( having first been calibrated ).

On June 21, 2004, Space Ship One became the first privately funded aircraft to make a spaceflight, opening the possibility of an aviation market capable of leaving the Earth's atmosphere.

The Amiga Skyline BBS software was the first in 1987 featuring a script markup language communication protocol called Skypix which was capable to give the user a complete graphical interface, featuring rich graphic content, changeable fonts, mouse-controlled actions, animations and sound.

In the years after Grey's retirement the party was led first by Lord Melbourne, a fairly traditional Whig, and then by Lord John Russell, the son of a Duke but a crusading radical, and Lord Palmerston, a renegade Irish Tory and essentially a conservative, although capable of radical gestures.

DOS-11 was the PDP-11's first disk operating system, but was soon supplanted by more capable systems.

It is merely required they have capable and compatible receiver systems operational ; However, this is a variable humans cannot accurately estimate without actually making first contact with an intelligent extraterrestrial species.

The FSC-1 is the first known vehicle capable of automatic conversion from aircraft to car at the touch of a button.

The company has demonstrated the first fuel cell capable of starting under freezing conditions with its proton exchange membrane.

Griffith's experiment, reported in 1928 by Frederick Griffith, was one of the first experiments suggesting that bacteria are capable of transferring genetic information through a process known as transformation.

Kildall was one of the first people to see microprocessors as fully capable computers rather than equipment controllers and to organize a company around this concept.

In 2005, the first HSDPA capable network also became operational.

Although the first Gatling gun was capable of firing continuously, it required a person to crank it ; therefore it was not a true automatic weapon.

Significantly, in the history of education of the deaf, he said that deaf people were capable of using their minds, argued for the importance of teaching them, and was one of the first to state that deaf people could learn to read and write without learning how to speak first.

In 1835, the first U. S. patent for a horseshoe manufacturing machine capable of making up to 60 horseshoes per hour was issued to Henry Burden.

In 1929, he was recruited by the New York Yankees, who already had a capable first baseman, Lou Gehrig.

The first documented systematic technique capable of determining integrals is the method of exhaustion of the ancient Greek astronomer Eudoxus ( ca.

It is the first African mobile service operator to use ForgetMeNot Africa's eTXT service to enable their customer base to send and receive email via any mobile capable of a simple SMS

Although the aether is almost stationary according to Fresnel, his theory predicts a positive outcome of aether drift experiments only to second order in, because Fresnel's dragging coefficient would cause a negative outcome of all optical experiments capable of measuring effects to first order in.

In October of that same year, the Union Regnard sugar estate ( Now F. U. E. L ) received the first motorized truck of British origin, capable of transporting up to 5 tons.

The report further claimed that " reactionary imperialist elements throughout the world, particularly in the U. S. A., in Britain and France, had put particular hope on Germany and Japan, primarily on Hitlerite Germany — first as a force most capable of striking a blow at the Soviet Union.

In particular, a Serb expedition to expel the Turks from Adrianople led by the Serbian brothers King Vukašin and Despot Uglješa, was defeated on September 26, 1371, by Murad's Murat capable second lieutenant Lala Şâhin Paşa, the first governor ( beylerbey ) of Rumeli.

It is a 9 mm, 18-round, double action only, semi-automatic / three-round burst capable polymer frame pistol manufactured by German arms firm Heckler & Koch GmbH ; the VP designation stands for Volkspistole (" The people's pistol "), and the designation 70 was for the year of the first edition: 1970.

The first single-chip microprocessor was the 4-bit Intel 4004 released in 1971, with the Intel 8008 and other more capable microprocessors becoming available over the next several years.

It will not, however, be used for symbolic assignment until all other index words or electronic switches have been assigned for the first time.

If the first item in the operand is omitted, the symbolic name IOCSIXF will be assigned.

Additionally, Elihu's first spoken words are a confession of his youthful status, being much younger than the three canonical friends, including a claim to be speaking because he cannot bear to remain silent ; it has been suggested that this interesting statement may have been symbolic of a " younger " ( that is to say, later and interpolating ) writer, who has written Elihu's sermon to respond to what he views as morally and theologically scandalous statements being made within the book of Job, and creating the literary device of Elihu to provide what seemed to be a faith-based response to further refute heresy and provide a counter-argument, a need partially provided by God's ambiguous and unspecific response to Job at the end of the book.

As an example of a conditional proof in symbolic logic, suppose we want to prove A → C ( if A, then C ) from the first two premises below:

A creation myth is a symbolic narrative of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the Emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the Shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the Holy Roman Emperor.

), sometimes performing a symbolic act such as cutting a ribbon or pushing a button at an opening, christening something with champagne, laying the first stone, and so on.

It has been suggested in an article by Roma Chatterji " that the hero or more generally protagonist is first and foremost a symbolic representation of the person who is experiencing the story while reading, listening or watching ; thus the relevance of the hero to the individual relies a great deal on how much similarity there is between the two.

This involves being the first person to cross the threshold of a friend or neighbour and often involves the giving of symbolic gifts such as salt ( less common today ), coal, shortbread, whisky, and black bun ( a rich fruit cake ) intended to bring different kinds of luck to the householder.

The first cracks in the system, even though they were merely symbolic, were the 1970s reforms to the electoral system and the composition of the Congress of the Union which for the first time incorporated proportional representation seats allowing opposition parties to obtain seats, though limited in number, in the Chamber of Deputies.

The first is a ritual designed for the individual, which involves sacrificing a " Cake of Light " ( a type of bread that serves as the host ) to Ra ( i. e. the Sun ) and infusing a second Cake with the adept's own blood ( either real or symbolic, in a gesture reflecting the myth of the Pelican cutting its own breast to feed its young ) and then consuming it with the words, " There is no grace: there is no guilt: This is the Law: Do what thou wilt!

The fact that the emblem by which a sultan was enthroned consisted of a sword was highly symbolic: it showed that the office with which he was invested was first and foremost that of a warrior.

* Creation myth, a symbolic account of how the world began and how people first came to inhabit it

The symbolic keys in the papal coat of arms are a reference to the phrase " the keys of the kingdom of heaven " in the first of these texts.

His work on arithmetic and algebra, Algorithmus Demonstratus, was among the first containing symbolic algebra.

When Portuguese explorers first came into contact with the Japanese ( see Nanban period ), they described Japanese conditions in analogy, likening the emperor, with great symbolic authority but little political power, to the Pope, and the shogun to secular European rulers, e. g. the King of Spain.

* Franciscus Vieta ( 1540 – 1603 ) published In Artem Analycitem Isagoge ( 1591 ), which gave the first symbolic notation of parameters in literal algebra.

According to Swedenborgianism, the first twelve chapters of Genesis are a symbolic retelling of ancient truths.

It was not the first time that the U. S. had used non-recognition as a political tool or symbolic statement.

In 1847 Boole published The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, the first of his works on symbolic logic.

The stone dresser was regarded as the most important as it symbolically faces the entrance in each house and is therefore the first item seen when entering, perhaps displaying symbolic objects, including decorative artwork such as several Neolithic Carved Stone Balls also found at the site.

When the eyes are closed, fantastically vivid images appear: first geometrical forms and then landscapes, buildings, animate beings, and symbolic objects.

A prime example for the first development was the pioneering work conducted by the later Nobel Prize laureate in physics Martin Veltman, who designed a program for symbolic mathematics, especially High Energy Physics, called Schoonschip ( Dutch for " clean ship ") in 1963.