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обчислення, ступінчатий рахівник, жолобчасті барабани, коло,
покроково.
Task 4. Answer the following questions?
1. What the first computer originally was?
2. What was the computer originally created for?
3. What contribution to computer science was made by John
Napier, Leonardo da Vinci, Wilhelm Schickard, Blaise Pascal,
Wilhelm Leibniz?

PART 2

Task 1. Learn the following words and word combinations:
Power loom, weave, fabric, boon, Difference Engine, exceedingly,
deter, brainstorm, conditional statement, breakthrough, census,
count, adopt, savings, buyouts.

Task 2. Create your own sentences using the above mentioned
words and phrases.

TEXT 2
USEFUL IDEAS
In 1801 the Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard invented a
power loom that could base its weave and hence the design on the
fabric upon a pattern automatically read from punched wooden cards,
held together in a long row by rope. Jacquard`s technology was a real
boon benefit to mill owners.
By 1822 the English mathematician Charles Babbage was
proposing a steam driven calculating machine the size of a room,
which he called the Difference Engine. This machine would be able
to compute tables of numbers, such as logarithm tables. But
construction of Babbage’s Difference Engine proved exceedingly

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