"Computer History" Author: Bobby Dulmirer, Jonathan Gagliardoni In 1642, a man by the name of Blaise Pascal came up with the first "digital calculating machine". He made it as a gift for his father, who was a tax collector. This "digital calculating machine" worked with addittions entered by dial. Then in 1694, Gottfried Von Lebniz invented a calculating machine that could add and multiply. In 1812, computer developments had risen in Cambridge, England. Charles Babbage wanted to develop a machine that would operate the long computations to be able to operate automatically. He then devised an automatic calculating machine, which he named a "difference en