Mechanical Calculators
1600's
Blaise Pascal : Pascaline Calculator (1642)
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Leibniz Wheel (1673)
1630 Puritans establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony
1619 A Dutch Ship brings the first Africans to Jamestown
1690 John Locke publishes Essay Concerning Human Understanding
 
Photo of Leibniz, courtesy of Niedersaechsische Landesbibliothek
Carol Gardosik