The document summarizes the history of early mechanical and electromechanical computing devices: 1) The Pascaline, invented in 1642 by Blaise Pascal, was one of the first mechanical calculators capable of addition but had manufacturing problems. 2) Gottfried Leibniz's Stepped Reckoner of the 1670s could perform addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, and square roots. 3) Charles Babbage began designing the Difference Engine in 1822 to automate number tables but it was never completed, leading him to conceive the analytical engine. 4) The analytical engine, designed in 1833, was intended to perform calculations according to a set of stored instructions