Smart Gadgets

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Sm rt thinking It took smart thinking to come up with these gadgets! How were they invented?

computers

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telephones

TVs

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Automatic calculator Around 200 years ago, a Maths teacher called Charles Babbage wanted to fix a problem.

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I’ll invent something that can do tricky Maths sums!

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The computer Ada Lovelace worked with Babbage. I’ll invent codes to tell the automatic calculator what to do.

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It led to the world’s first computers.

Modern computers are so much smaller!

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