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    The first computer “bug” was found in the Harvard Mark I by Grace Murray Hopper when a moth caused one of the relays to fail.

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Lorenzo Adkins patented a Water Wheel

On the 17th May, 1839, Lorenzo Dow Adkins received a patent for a Spiral-Bucket Water-Wheel, which used water to generate power to operate mills and other machinery.

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