Who made the first man made computer?

Answer 1

Which device is considered the first computer is somewhat debatable. Some consider the abacus to be the first computer. The first programmable machine was invented by Al-Jazari, but it didn't perform calculations. (It was a humanoid robot that played music.)

The first general use computer was designed by Charles Babbage, but was never entirely built, and would have been entirely mechanical. (He couldn't get the funding. Whether it would have worked with the technology available at the time is debated.) If it had been built and worked, it would have been the first Turing-complete computer (except that a truly Turing-complete computer would need infinite memory). To be Turing-complete means to be able to simulate any other computer. (It doesn't have to simulate it in real time.) In other words, it can (in theory) be programmed for any (computational) task.

The Z3 was designed by Konrad Zuse. It was the first Turing-complete computer (except for memory limitations), but was mechanical rather than electronic. It's existence was kept secret until after WWII.

The first fully-electronic computer was the Colossus. It was designed primarily by Tommy Flowers, with assistance from others at Bletchley Park. Its was also secret until after the war. (It was used to crack the German Enigma cipher (code) machine.) It was programmable only by rewiring it, and was not Turing-complete.

I think the ENIAC, designed by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, was the first computer to be both Turing-complete and fully electronic, but I'm not sure. It was considered the first programmable computer until information on the computers secretly made during WWII were made public.

The first computer with a graphical display and mouse was the Alto. It was created by a small team at Xerox, but was never sold. Some consider it to be the first personal computer.

The first computer to use an x86 processor was the IBM PC 5150. It was designed by a team of engineers led by Don Estridge.
Charles Babbage designed what was called the "Analytical Engine" which was the first stored-program mechanical computer in 1837. However his design was never completed.

In 1939, John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer at Iowa State University, which was regarded as the first electronic digital computer.
The first computer to have the components necessary to be considered a computer was made by Konrad Zuse in 1936, it was called the Z1, with its successors being the Z2, Z3, and Z4 respectively. While many think the first computer was the ENIAC, the ENIAC was only the first electronic computer, with the Z1 being mostly mechanical but with a drive motor to facilitate somewhat autonomous calculation. It was different from being simply a comprehensive calculation machine in that it could operate from a program and execute commands autonomously vs just react to given instructions.

Answer 2

It depends on what you mean with "made" and "computer".

The answer you are looking for is possibly Konrad Zuse.

Perhaps this answers your question.

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Answer 3

The Chinese abacus is an early computing device. One of the first mechanical computers that could be programmed was the Babbage "Difference Engine," though Charles kept expanding the scope of the project and never actually completed work on it. That was back in the 1830s.

Eniac was the first electronic computer. Construction of it began about 1944, and was commissioned by the US Army. It was built largely by the University of Pennsylvania's electrical engineering department.

All computers are man made.

Answer 4

COMPUTER

The computer as we know it today had its beginning with a 19th century English mathematics professor name Charles Babbage.

He designed the Analytical Engine and it was this design that the basic framework of the computers of today are based on.

Generally speaking, computers can be classified into three generations. Each generation lasted for a certain period of

time, and gave us either a new and improved computer or an improvement to the existing computer.

First generation: 1937 -- 1946 -

In 1937 the first electronic digital computer was built by Dr. John V. Atanasoff and Clifford Berry. It was called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). In 1943 an electronic computer name the Colossus was built for the military. Other developments continued until in 1946 the first general-- purpose digital computer, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was built. It is said that this computer weighed 30 tons, and had 18,000 vacuum tubes which was used for processing. When this computer was turned on for the first time lights dim in sections of Philadelphia. Computers of this generation could only perform single task, and they had no operating system.

Second generation: 1947 -- 1962 -

This generation of computers used transistors instead of vacuum tubes which were more reliable. In 1951 the first computer for commercial use was introduced to the public; the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC 1). In 1953 the International Business Machine (IBM) 650 and 700 series computers made their mark in the computer world. During this generation of computers over 100 computer programming languages were developed, computers had memory and operating systems. Storage media such as tape and disk were in use also were printers for output.

Third generation: 1963 - present -

The invention of integrated circuit brought us the third generation of computers. With this invention computers became smaller, more powerful more reliable and they are able to run many different programs at the same time. In1980 Microsoft Disk Operating System (MS-Dos) was born and in 1981 IBM introduced the personal computer (PC) for home and office use. Three years later Apple gave us the Macintosh computer with its icon driven interface and the 90s gave us Windows operating system.

As a result of the various improvements to the development of the computer we have seen the computer being used in all areas of life. It is a very useful tool that will continue to experience new development as time passes.

Answer 5

These no simple way to answer that question, due to the many classifications of computer. You need to make your question more specific rather than general.