Who invented the Very 1st computer?
Some computer science professors consider the loom & abacus to be the first computers. Charles Babbage did not invent the computer. He only theorized about what it might be like. In the 1880’s, the US government realized that they couldn’t complete the census in 10 years. They contracted with Herman Hollerith to build a machine to speed up the process. He invented what he called the “tabulating machine”, which is generally considered to be the first electronic computer. It had metal brushes that made contact through holes in a punch card. He then founded the Tabulating Machine Company, which changed its name in the 1920’s to International Business Machines (IBM).
well the answer varies. 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. 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 mechan
First programmable computer The Z1 originally created by Germany’s Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 is considered to be the first electrical binary programmable computer. The first digital computer Short for Atanasoff-Berry Computer, the ABC started being developed by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and graduate student Cliff Berry in 1937 and continued to be developed until 1942 at the Iowa State College (now Iowa State University). On October 19, 1973, US Federal Judge Earl R. Larson signed his decision that the ENIAC patent by Eckert and Mauchly was invalid and named Atanasoff the inventor of the electronic digital computer. The first stored program computer The early British computer known as the EDSAC is considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. The computer performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949 and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game. Unfortunately this question has no easy answer because of all the diff
Define “computer”. The abacus is an early computer, and we have no idea who invented it. Or the the Antikythera mechanism, invented some time around 100 BC. Charles Babbage created a “difference engine”, which could be considered a computer, in the first half of the 19th century. The first electronic digital computer was designed around the beginning of WW2. One of the earliest PCs (personal computer) was the Mark-8 8008 based computer. It was designed by Jonathan Titus and appeared in the July 1974 issue of Radio-Electronics magazine (it was a DIY project).
Charles Babbage is generally regarded as the “inventor” of the computer, but honestly it was such a smooth evolution there are any one of a thousand different people who could be validly credited with it. Also I know you hate school but it’s still important. Suck it up and it will be over before you know it and then you’ll almost miss parts of it I promise.
