we are doing a project for history of an computer.we need help finding who invented it.can you help us?
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Depends which computer explains your defenition. This might be a long answer, I didn't write it myself. I copy and pasted it. Sorry :(
The first known counting devices or tools were Tally Sticks from about 35,000 BC.
The Abacus was then invented by the Babylonians in 2400 BC.
In 1837, Charles Babbage, a British professor of mathematics described his idea for the Analytical Engine, the first stored-program mechanical computer. The Analytical Engine was designed to be powered by a steam engine and was to use Punched Cards, which was used to program mechanical looms at the time.
What made the Analytical Engine unique was that it was designed to be programmed.
It was because of this and the fact that it would be more than 100 years that any similar devices would be constructed, Charles Babbage, would be considered by many as the “father of computing”. Because of legal, financial, and political obstacles, the Analytical Machine would never be completed. Charles Babbage was also difficult to work with and alienated the supporters of his work.
In 1939, John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) at Iowa State University, which was regarded as the first electronic digital computer. The ABC was built by hand and the design used over 300 Vacuum Tubes and had capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum for memory.
The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer), constructed in the US in 1943, is widely regarded as the first functionally useful electronic general-purpose computer. Influenced by the ABC, it was a turning point in the history of computing and was used to perform ballistics trajectory calculations and used 160 kW of power. World War II is known to be the driving force of computing hardware development and one of such use of computers was in communications encryption and decryption.
The UNIVAC I (Universal Automatic Computer) was the first commercially available, “mass produced” electronic computer manufactured by Remington Rand in the USA and was delivered to the US Census Bureau in June 1951. It used 5,200 vacuum tubes and consumed 125 kW of power. 46 machines were sold at more than $1 million each.
The microprocessor eventually led to the development of the microcomputer, small, low-cost computers that individuals and small businesses could afford.
By the 1990s, the microcomputer or Personal Computer (PC) became a common household appliance, and became even more widespread with the advent of the Internet.
Blaise pascal is the one who inverted the computer.he invented the first calculator which is a computer to help his father since his father was a tax collector.he say that calculations were very difficult for his father so he dicided to invent the calculator which was coposed of number and arithmetic sings such as multiplication and addition.
In the year 1786 the “difference engine” was invented by J.H. Muller. It could not make its place and conquer the market and thus in 1822 Charles Babbage, famous as “the father of the computer” reinvented it. In the history of computers this has been considered as zero generation of computers because analytical computers and difference engine weighed in tons. Charles Babbage was the son of a businessman. He studied in Helmond Academy in Baker Street. Charles was very fond of mathematics and for further studies he went to Cambridge. He then joined Peterhouse Cambridge where he studied Computer Science and Analytical Philosophy.
In the beginning, computers were used for calculating mathematical tables. This computing function gave them the name of computers. As Charles had studied computer science and was a profound mathematician he thought of designing a machine to overcome human errors. He started working upon a machine that could take input, work upon it and give flawless output. The difference engine he developed calculated the finite difference without multiplying and dividing. Due to heavy weight, huge size and complex design Charles came up with improved design as difference engine 2. But this again was not a success. He finally decided to work on complex and efficient machines which were called analytical engines. He worked on many designs for the purpose but the design which he finalized was implemented in the year 1989. He believed that paying high to highly skilled people saved cost and it really worked.
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computer started at 1400 B C
The first, programmable “computing machine”
Without getting too technical, the first “computing machine” was created by Charles Babbage in 1822. His idea was not really to create a computer as we know them today, but instead, to create a machine that would compute math problems. He was tired of human errors in completing math problems, so he sought to create an infallible math machine, but what he got instead was a machine that was the basis for what we know now as the computer.
Charles Babbage is credited as the inventor of the first computer. His machine, the Babbage machine (bottom picture) was the first programmable, analytical machine and it was a fully automatic calculating machine. Fundamentally, modern day computers does the same thing, read a program and execute it.
