An infinitive is a verbal consisting of the word to plus a verb (in its simplest stem form) and functioning as a noun, adjective, or adverb. The term verbal indicates that an infinitive, like the other two kinds of verbals, is based on a verb and therefore expresses action or a state of being.
English mathematician Charles Babbage is often referred to as the father of computing.. Babbage invented the first automatic calculator, which is still regarded as a prominent example of precision engineering, in the 1800s. Continue Reading.
2013-07-03 19:23:54 UTC. Douglas Engelbart, the man who invented the computer mouse and helped develop many of the basic computing technologies we now take for granted, has died. He was 88. The news appears to have first been announced via a tweet from the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.