Read and translate the text.. COMPUTERS

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COMPUTERS

  The first calculating machine was invented by Charles Babbage, a professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University, in 1912. This machine could do complicated calculations faster than a human mathematician. The first computers were very big, because there were thousands of tubes in them. The engine weighs about 3 tones and it is nearly 2 meters tall and 3 meters wide. It’s still in the Science Museum today. But they were not used for a long time. Computers became smaller and now they can stand on a writing desk in a flat, but do calculations much faster. Now a computer can do one million sums in one second. No man can do that.

Today computers are used widely, because they are more efficient than human beings. They can calculate the orbits of sputniks and spaceships, control machines in factories working out tomorrow’s weather forecasts, reserve seats on plane, pay wages, play chess, write poetry or compose music. Computers can also make a translation from one language into another.

  They are a great help to a student, a doctor, a teacher, a librarian, a composer, a designer, an agronomist. They are important in business,  science, education, for entertainment.

 Computer was first used for accounting. That's why it is so important for busi­ness and management. Banks use computers. Outside many banks there are automatic tellers, which are computers. People use them when the bank is closed.

How much information computer can store! They are ready to help people at any moment. In fact, they can do many of the things we do, but faster and better. Today computers control nearly everything we do in the world. They serve people in their daily lives and work.