who first invented the computer?

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   blbhhdcnposted 14 years ago

   who first invented the computer?

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   MickSposted 14 years ago

   Charles Babbage is known as 'the father of the computer', in 1822 he rediscovered the difference engine, something thought up but not built about 50 years earlier.
   'Alan Turing is known as the father of electronic computers.'
   Nothing exists in a vacuum and computing machines of one sort or another have been known for as long as we have counted - fingers and toes - abacus, very quick - and the astrolabe, designed it is believed, by Archimedes, to calculate the position of the stars.

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   days leaperposted 14 years ago

   Mick S taught me something, all i know is that it is a glorified calculating device that was developed in WW2 for cracking codes.

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   davidseegerposted 14 years ago

   I have a hub on the subject of history ofcomputers you might look at.

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   bettanywireposted 14 years ago

   Charles Babbage most probably invented the first computer.

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   internett1t3posted 14 years ago

   Charles Babbage is inventor of the first computer.

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   ankigarg87posted 14 years ago

   Many say the first computer is the "difference engine." The first of these devices was conceived in 1786 by J.H. Müller. It was never built.
   Difference engines were forgotten and then rediscovered in 1822 by Englishman Charles Babbage..who is known as "the father of the Computer". This machine used the decimal numbers system and was powered by cranking a handle. The British government first financed the project but then later cut off support. Babbage went on to design his much more general analytical engine but later returned and produced an improved design (his "Difference Engine No. 2") between 1834 and 1869.
   Others point out that this is the first ELECTRONIC computer. The earliest computer known is the Antikythera Machine, a mechanical device that computed the positions of the astrological signs on any given date, past or future. It was discovered in an ancient shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and dates to approximately 250 BC. The designer/builder is not known, but because of its similarity to other mechanical devices known to have been designed by Archimedes, it is probably his work.

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