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Leibnitz’s Stepped Reckoner could not only add and subtract, but multiply and divide as well.  Interesting thing about the Stepped Reckoner is that Leibnitz’s design was way ahead of his time.  A working model of the machine didn’t appear till 1791, long after the inventor was dead and gone.