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Who Invented The Computer?

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sargam21

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Charles Babbage invented Computer.

Posted by sargam21 on December 17, 2011 at 6:20 PM

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madihaa

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i don't know sorry i was not present that time :)

Posted by madihaa on March 6, 2012 at 12:10 PM

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This question does not necessarily have an answer because there have been many different creations that fit under the definition of computer. However it is accepted that  Charles Babbage is the father of the first computer and that was the Analytical Engine, which was not what a computer is today and did not use the Von Neumann architecture, but it could store memory and was programable.

Posted by ohoboho on March 7, 2012 at 5:08 AM

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lakshmi1997

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CHARLES BABBAGE

Posted by lakshmi1997 on March 12, 2012 at 11:27 PM

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sweetgiggles

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charles babbage...

 

Posted by sweetgiggles on March 13, 2012 at 10:27 PM

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Charles Babbage

Posted by abhi4307 on March 16, 2012 at 12:14 AM

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elementfe

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Konrad Zuse invented the  first modern program-controlled Computer (Z3) in 1941

Posted by elementfe on March 17, 2012 at 11:43 PM

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Charles Babbage

Posted by piya1234 on March 20, 2012 at 8:06 PM

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farthingale

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Hi,

Personally I think that it is not easy to give a true answer since many scientists and researchers contributed to the invention of this device. We can suggest that (inter alia) Dupont de Nemours was one of its great theoreticians.

Best,

@ZacEgs

Posted by farthingale on March 22, 2012 at 6:04 PM

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kavthuv

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Charles Babbage

Posted by kavthuv on March 23, 2012 at 3:18 PM

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suvetha

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Charles Babbage

Posted by suvetha on March 23, 2012 at 3:19 PM

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ajprincess

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charles babbage invented the computer.

Posted by ajprincess on March 25, 2012 at 12:07 AM

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lnj100

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Adan Turing

Posted by lnj100 on March 27, 2012 at 7:44 AM

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abhi4307

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Charles Babbage

Posted by abhi4307 on March 29, 2012 at 11:01 PM

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Charles Babbage

Posted by run582 on April 2, 2012 at 7:16 PM

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THE CINNAMON CHALLENGE! D:

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CHARLES BABBAGE(1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines. He invented computers but failed to build them. The first complete Babbage Engine was completed in London in 2002, 153 years after it was designed. Difference Engine No. 2, built faithfully to the original drawings, consists of 8,000 parts, weighs five tons, and measures 11 feet long.

We invite you to learn more about this extraordinary object, its designer Charles Babbage and the team of people who undertook to build it. Discover the wonder of a future already passed. A sight no Victorian ever saw.

An identical Engine completed in March 2008 is on display at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California.

  

 

Posted by ayush17 on April 25, 2012 at 10:58 AM

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Charles Babbage

Posted by loraaa on May 2, 2012 at 10:55 PM

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the answer is Charles Babbage

Posted by alirizvi22 on May 4, 2012 at 2:28 PM

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Charles Babbage

Posted by btrfan97 on May 5, 2012 at 10:04 PM

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ali001

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 Charles Babbage that english dude

Posted by ali001 on May 8, 2012 at 7:47 AM

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jerry261

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Charles Babbage

Posted by jerry261 on May 12, 2012 at 5:08 AM

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bunnybears

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Charles Babbage, who died on October 18, 1871 in london. He was born on1799, so he died when he was79 year old

Posted by bunnybears on May 13, 2012 at 1:07 PM

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superslow1

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This may help you; www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm

... then again it may not ;)

Posted by superslow1 on May 13, 2012 at 2:07 PM

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etotheeyepi

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A previous post suggested that many people contributed to inventing the computer.  John Vincent Atanasoff should get some of the credit.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atanasoff%E2%80%93Berry_Computer

One might say that Tom Watson, the CEO of IBM, invented the computer because he focused his entire organization to that end.

See The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson, Sr. and the Making of IBM by Kevin Manev

Posted by etotheeyepi on May 13, 2012 at 2:15 PM

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broncoboy7

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The first 'computer', per se, was invented by Charles Babbage in the 1820s. This computer was the "Difference Engine #1". The first computer Programmer was Ada Lovelace, who, in the 1840s, worked on Babbage's Engine. The first use of 'punch cards' to control an operation was the Jacquard Loom, invented in 1801 by Joseph Marie Jacquard to control textile manufacturing. This could be considered the first computer. There is the Programma 101, which was a desktop calculator created by the Olivetti company. The first PC with a GUI was the Xerox Alto, created by Xerox. The first Mac with a GUI was the Apple II, and the first well known one after that was the IBM 5150.

Babbage, Lovelace, Jacquard, Olivetti, Xerox, Macintosh, and IBM all contributed to the invention of the computer. 

 

It was a team effort, so to speak.

Posted by broncoboy7 on May 15, 2012 at 11:14 PM

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The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage in the 1820s. 

The first electronic digital computers were developed between 1940 and 1945 in the United Kingdom and United States. Originally, they were the size of a large room, consuming as much power as several hundred modern personal computers.

Posted by sarahchocoholic on May 16, 2012 at 8:13 AM

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Charles Babbage

Posted by sun01 on May 18, 2012 at 5:19 PM

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popatlal

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Master charles nicholes loernial babbage

Posted by popatlal on May 19, 2012 at 8:59 AM

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nikitasingh

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it is charles babbage

Posted by nikitasingh on May 23, 2012 at 5:12 AM

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