Babbage is most often credited with inventing the first digital computer and first automatic computer. Lily-chan :]
Welshman Robert Recorde is credited with inventing the equal sign in 1557.
Algebra was first used in 1800 BC. There is evidence of the solution for quadratic elliptic equations in the Strasburg Tablet from Old Babylon.
Algebra. I took it in that order, and to do most of the geometry, you HAVE to know algebra. If I had taken geometry first, I would have failed. ALGEBRA FIRST.
Blaise Pascal and Wilhelm Schickard are credited with inventing one of the earliest calculators in the mid 1600's. Thomas de Colmar invented a calculator for business in 1850. William Seward Burroughs is the person that invented the 10-key adding machine for commercial purposes in 1888.
James Naismith was the first person to invent the basketall
Rip Sewell is credited with inventing the eephus pitch.
Carl Benz of Germany is credited with inventing the first practical automobile.
That is the patent number for the first basketball. The person credited with inventing the basketball was G.L. Pierce.
The Wright brothers.
Abner Doubleday. Later research has shown that the story of Doubleday inventing baseball is a myth; the first person to codify the rules of the game was actually Alexander Cartwright.
a Dutch spectacle-maker from Middlburg credited with inventing, or contributing advances towards the invention of the first telescope. Jansen is sometimes credited for inventing the first truly compound microscope.
Alessandro Volta is credited with inventing the first battery in 1800. His invention, known as the Voltaic pile, was the first electrochemical cell capable of producing a steady electric current.
Igor Sikorsky
A. Igor Sikorsky
In 1961, Leonard Kleinrock was the first to publish a paper about the idea of packet switching, which is essential to Internet. Sources: http://www.chacha.com/question/who-is-credited-for-inventing-the-internet
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