MECHANICAL ERA

The mechanical age is when we first start to see connections between our current technology and its ancestors. The mechanical age can be defined as the time between 1450 and 1840. A lot of new technologies are developed in this era as there is a large explosion in interest with this area. Technologies like the slide rule (an analog computer used for multiplying and dividing) were invented. Blaise Pascal invented the Pascaline which was a very popular mechanical computer. Charles Babbage developed the difference engine which tabulated polynomial equations using the method of finite differences.

1. With which Fact started premechanical era?
Sumerian cuneiform script

2. What is the most important development?
The alphabet

3. Who made the first computer program?
Ada Agusta Lovelace

4. What was Gutembreg's invention?
The mobible middle tipe printing process.