simple answer to the question‚ "Who invented the computer?" Many inventors‚ through the course of time have contributed to the invention of the computer. It is quite hard to pinpoint the first computer‚ but most scholars say the abacus was the first "computer." The abacus was the first portable counting mechanism‚ invented by the Babylonians (Houghton 1). However‚ this was not quite a computer because it could not be programmed. In the early 1800s‚ a man named Charles Babbage created a device called
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ABB Power and Productivity for a Better World COMPANY BRIEF ABB (Asea Brown Boveri) was formed in 1988 by the merger of two companies: the Swedish company ASEA and the Brown Boveri of Switzerland to create a global electrical engineering giant. Percy Barnevik (of ASEA) was the chief executive and master mind of the restructuring process that integrated both the companies. * In your opinion‚ was the organization structure chosen for Asea Brown Boveri by Barnevick appropriate? The Organisation
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History of WRITING The history of writing is primarily the development of expressing language by letters or other marks and also the study and description of these developments. One of the earliest forms of written expression is cuneiform. Writing systems are distinguished from other possible symbolic communication systems in that one must usually understand something of the associated spoken language to comprehend the text. By contrast
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CRITIQUE OF A TOY The toy I have chosen is the LEGO 750 BRICKS BOX TOY This toy is good for children of ages 2 to 6 years‚ it allows for free play and helps children to be creative‚ it helps develop their learning skills and is good for their hand to eye co-ordination which also which also increase their physical and intellectual development ( Ellis flood 2010 Child Development for students in Ireland Dublin Gill & Macmillan ) Margaret Macmillan approach to the curriculum was designed around
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References: Chambers‚ R. J. (1999a). Accounting for simplicity. Abacus‚ 35‚ 121–138. Chambers‚ R. J. (1999b). The poverty of accounting discourse. Abacus‚ 35‚ 241–252. Chan‚ C. C. C.‚ & Milne‚ M. J. (1999). Investor reactions to corporate environmental saints and sinners: an experimental attitude. Accounting and Business Research‚ 29‚ 265–279. Day‚ R. G. (2004)
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To what extent was the Chinese government responsible for the massacre at the Tiananmen Protest of 1989? By Ivan Khokhlov candidate number: xxxxxx Ashcroft Technology Academy centre number: 6145 HL History Word Count: xxxx Date submitted: xx.xx.xxxx A: Plan of Investigation This investigation will establish whether Chinese government is to blame for violence in Tiananmen protest under martial law in
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10% in 1986 to 25% in 1994. Also‚ of the 25%‚ 34% of them were equipped with modems‚ which allow for connection to on line services via telephone lines. The primitive start of the computer came about around 4000 BC; with the invention of the abacus‚ by the Chinese. It was a rack with beads strung on wires that could be moved to make calculations. The first digital computer is usually accredited to Blaise Pascal. In 1642 he made the device to aid his father‚ who was a tax collector. In 1694
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On- the – Job Training (OJT) is the most old‚ common but effective way to train every individual student in order to enhance their skills‚ knowledge and not only to their actual skills but also to their mental and physical abilities. For there to be able to know their strength and weaknesses‚ and their social ability to communicate to their co-workers/co-trainees and especially if they doing so their given task and if they also follow the rules and regulations of the company that they are working
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used and can be best described as being simple and structured. The columns consist of no base and have indentations on them. The capitals are composed of two parts‚ the flat slab which is a square block made from a single piece of marble called an abacus and a cushion-like slab called the echinus (figure 2). The frieze contains alternating trigylphys‚ which are three bars and metopes‚ slabs made of stone. The Doric order was mainly seen on the mainland and Italian Peninsula. The Ionic order contains
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suggests that pebbles or heads were arranged to form the famous abacus‚ the first man-made computing device. Early man also invented numbering systems to enable him to compute with ease for sums greater than 10. Decimal numbering system (Hindu-Arabic influence) uses specific digits representing from 0-9. 1600-1900 Blaise Pascal (French Mathematician) invented an adding machine in 1642. The machine adopted partly the principles of the abacus but did away with the use of the hand to move the beads of
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