What was the persons name who invented computers?

Answer 1

ENIAC was conceived and designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania.
The first computer like ours first was invented by Charles Babbage.
Approximately 35,000 B.C

A small piece of the fibula of a baboon, marked with 29 clearly defined notches, may rank as the oldest mathematical artefact known. Discovered in the early seventies during an excavation of the Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains between South Africa and Swaziland, the bone has been dated to approximately 35,000 B.C. In a description of the bone, Peter Beaumont, an archaeologist who has done extensive work on Border Cave, has noted that the 7.7 cm long bone resembles calendar sticks still in use today by Bushmen clans in Namibia.

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The abacus was probably invented in the Middle East. In the West, from early Roman times, users calculated with a "table abacus" that involved manipulating coin-like discs, or "jetons," on lines drawn on a table or cloth. The table abacus remained in use in parts of Britain and northern Europe until the late 1600s.

In the East, several Asian civilizations used a technique similar to the table abacus until about 1200 AD when the more familiar wire and bead abacus was created in China. As late as 1946, the US Army newspaper Stars and Stripes sponsored a contest pitting a Japanese abacus against an electric calculator. The abacus won.

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1623

William Schickard produced the first known mechanical calculator in 1623 while a professor at Germany's Tübingen University

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1860

Charles Babbage developed the "Difference Engine," a mechanical device that could perform error-free calculation of polynomial functions. He completed only a small model before the British government withdrew funding, forcing him to abandon the project. Soon after, Swedish scientists Georg and Edvard Scheutz would complete a working version.

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1936

Konrad Zuse developed functioning program-controlled computing machinery as early as 1936 and went on to form a successful European computer business in the 1950s

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Answer 2

Inventor of the ComputerMany say the first computer is the "difference engine." The first of these devices was conceived in 1786 by J. H. Mueller. It was never built.

Difference engines were forgotten and then rediscovered in 1822 by Charles Babbage. 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 1847 and 1849.

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.

Still others will say the abacus is the first computer. They were invented by the Chinese between 2400 BC and 300 BC is considered as the first computer ever. Abacus was used by the merchants and Clerks in China.

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• If you mean Electronic Computer, It was a man called Alan Turing from Cambridge UK, Who was draughted in to Bletchley park secret base where they worked at cracking the WW2 enigma codes that the Germans used every day. The Germans changed their Enigma machines to a four digit code maker. However, Because what went on at Bletchley Park the computer made from thousands of valves was kept top secret up until recently. The computer, named Colossus was smashed to peices at the end of the war. The buildings have now been restored as a tourist centre.

• The first computer, or "modern computer" was invented in World War II by a German engineer, Konrad Zuse in 1941 called the Z3. More Info: "I can add some authenticity to this answer. My grandfather was a rocket scientist on Werner Von Braun's team during WWII. He was the technician who actually built the computer described above. It was an analog computer designed to simulate the guidance system for the rockets. It was built in secret because the higher-ups had not given their permission for this project."

• After doing some reseach to answser a question for a scholarship I was applying for I found that Babbage failed to build a complete machine. The most widely accepted reason for this failure is that Victorian mechanical engineering were not sufficiently developed to produce parts with sufficient precision.

• It was Konrad Zuse. He invented the z1, z2, z3, z4 and other ones. The z3 was the first fully functional program-controlled electromaechanical digital computer in the world-completed in 1941. Charles Babbage just made a mechanical computing machine.

• "Who invented the computer?" is not a question with a simple answer. The real answer is that many inventors contributed to the history of computers and that a computer is a complex piece of machinery made up of many parts, each of which can be considered a separate invention.

• The first electronic computer was invented by John Vincent Ansoff. He named it the Anatasoff Berry Computer, or the ABC.

• Now, if we're talking technical knowledge and actual precursors to the PC - IBM may have accidentally spread it around when they allowed cloning of the PC architecture. But they were not the first.

• These are all pre-IBM machines: MITS ALTAIR 8800, Apple II, TRS80, Attari 800 and the Commodore 64.

• Purists who claim that the ALTAIR was not the first, will say it was 'Simon' by Berkley Enterprises, 1950, costing $300.

• The first completely electronic computer was developed in England in 1943. It was known as Colossus. It took up 1,000 Sq. ft. weighed 30 tons/60,000 pounds. And took 150 kilowatts which is enough power to light up a small town.

• The first computer was developed by Charles Babbage. It was called the Differencial and Analytical Engine. The programmer for this computer was Ada Lovelace (first programmer).

AnswerThere are A lot of people involved. History records Charles Babbage as the first to use them in a meaningful way.

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

That is very difficult to answer as the term computer has changed quite vastly over the ages. I would have to say that IBM created the first computer that really resembles that which we call one today in 1944 The Harvard Mark I- IBM ASCC, the inventor was Howard H. Aiken.

To add to the previous answer - in 1937 the English mathematician Alan Turing came up with a theoretical design for a computer. In 1939-40 he designed the "Colossus" - the computer used to break the German "Enigma" code during WW2. The principle of Colossus was the same as all computers since then, using on/off circuits to evaluate true or false conditions.

Colossus was built and used to crack the German teletype based "Fish" codes, not "Enigma". "Enigma" was broken using electro-mechanical machines called "Bombes".

John Vincent Atanasoff is credited as inventing the electronic computer. He finished building it in early 1942, however it was not programmable unlike the later electromechanical Harvard Mark I.

Answer 5

In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results.

Answer 6

Honestly this is not an easy question to answer. I guess you would first have to define what a computer really is. One common and widely agreed upon definition of a computer is: a devices which inputs, processes, and outputs data or information. If that's the definition you're going with then no one really knows because there have been ancient artifacts of devices found in ruins of past cities and settlements that input, process and output data. By this definition, no these computers were not able to run Windows of Mac or play games but they did serve functions such as map planetary alignment and position of the planets and geographical location.

I would look up old computers and/or ancient computers in Google and other search engine websites to get a better understanding of this.

Answer 7

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Answer 8

Charles Babbage in vented the computer