Timeline of computing hardware before 1950: Difference between revisions

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| Chinese inventor [[Liang Lingzan]] built the world's first fully mechanical clock; [[water clocks]], some of them extremely accurate, had been known for centuries previous to this. This was an important technological leap forward; the earliest true computers, made a thousand years later, used technology based on that of clocks. {{Citation needed|date=July 2008}}

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