I just need to know who invinted the first computer and when and books i can research?

Question

I need to know where the first computer was made who made it and just a little detail about the computer and its rise in power or something.

Answer 1

We don't talk about this anymore, but the first computer ever was not even digital. There was such thing as ANALOG computer. It had whole bunch of knobs and circuits, and you programmed it by plugging wires everywhere to make the right connections. It was used by military to calculate the path of missile's.

The first digital computer was called ENIAC. You can search the web with this name and find more than you need.

First micro computer chip ever invented was called 4004 and Intel was the manufacturer. It was followed by 4040, 8008, then 8080. Initially, it was not much more than programmable calculator. Generally, 8080 is thought to be the first usable "computer."

WHO invented depends on what you consider the first computer, as I explained above. I would suggest starting from ENIAC as it is the first digital computer. It was invented by the US Army. I've never seen any individual credited for its creation.

Answer 2

Blaise Pascal made one of the first 'calculating engines'.

Conrad Zuse made the first programmable computer. This was in Germany in world war 2. Strange as it may seem to us now, it was mostly mechanical, not electronic. But it was programmable and it did calculations.

Answer 3

John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert created the first electronic computer, the ENIAC.

Answer 4

thanks artisan you got the name correct, i forgot the name of the "inventor" but he was a telephone engineer i seem to recall and it was during the second world war used to crack the German enigma code. that was the first programmable computer as we know them today.

however decades before there was a simple programmable mechanical adding machine. again i forget the name of the inventor.
and as artisan said before that there was the abacus.
look it up.

try asking the question in the ask.com search engine you will probably get more information than the answerer's here.

Answer 5

The Babylonians (Iraq) invented it centuries ago. It was called the abacus. However, the fellow who was really on to what we nowadays call a computer, was named Charles Babbage.

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Babbage.html

http://www.maxmon.com/1000bc.htm

Answer 6

i believe it was a guy called charles babbage who invented the first computer before that there was the abacus used for counting

Answer 7

just log on to www.google.com or www.wikipedia.com and search like this " detail about first computer" u will get information about it.....it's easiest way to find detail about computer history

Answer 8

http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/blhollerith.htm

Answer 9

GEORGE WASHINGTON CARVER INVENTED THE FIRST COMPUTER OUT OF A PEANUT.........A PEANUT!!!