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Which of the following device was not invented by Babbage?

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Pascaline
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Difference Engine
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Analytical Engine
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None of above
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Solution

The correct option is A Pascaline

Pascaline device was not invented by Babbage.

Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.

Charles Babbage was an English mathematician, philosopher and inventor born on December 26, 1791, in London, England. Often called “The Father of Computing,” Babbage detailed plans for mechanical Calculating Engines, Difference Engines, and Analytical Engines. Babbage died on October 18, 1871, in London.


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