jan 1, 1837 - Babbage designs first programmable computer

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1. Even though these designs weren't used until the 1940s, they gave insight into the potential this concept offered far ahead of their time. His machine would have been Turing-complete had it been built.
2. His works inspired one of the creators of the Harvard Mark I, an early American electronic computer.
3. Babbage proposed the use of punch cards in computing, a practice that would be adopted a century later.

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