who had invented computer & when ?

Answer 1

Did anyone see that documentary about an artifact that was found in the eastern Mediteranean? It was totally encrusted, but under xray you could see there was some kind of device inside with very intricuit clock-like counting mechanisms. They proposed that it might have been some sort of counting or computing device. I believe it was dated to B.C. ...I just found this.

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Ancient artifacts discovered imbedded in solid rock, as well as artifacts found on the ocean floor, give evidence to the fact that our ancient ancestors were FAR more intelligent in the scientific realm than we give them credit for. Yves Naud describes in his book, one such artifact: "In 1900, sponge divers near Antikythera (Greece), found rusty fragments of a metallic apparatus on the sea floor. Scientists at first thought that they were remnants of an astrolabe dating from 65 B.C. In 1959, the English scientist, Solla Price, made a discovery which astounded the professional world when he published it in the NATURAL HISTORY review of March 1962:

"'It appears that this object is really a computer which can determine and describe the movements of the sun, of the moon, and probably of the planets.'

"This modern expert felt extremely humble and could only pay homage to the high science of our ancestors, although the homage was tinged with fear.

"'It is quite frightening,' he wrote in SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN (June, 1959), 'to learn that, shortly before their great civilization crumbled, THE ANCIENT GREEKS had come as close as this to our time, not only in terms of their thinking, but also in their scientific technology.'"

Answer 2

Charles Babbage.In 1837, Charles Babbage was the first to conceptualize and design a fully programmable mechanical computer that he called "The Analytical Engine".Due to limits of finances, and an inability to resist tinkering with the design, Babbage never actually built his Analytical Engine.
Large-scale automated data processing of punched cards was performed for the US Census in 1890 by tabulating machines designed by Herman Hollerith and manufactured by the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation (CTR), which later became IBM. So by the end of the 19th century a number of technologies that would later prove useful in the realization of practical computers had begun to appear: the punched card, Boolean algebra, the vacuum tube (thermionic valve) and the teleprinter.

Answer 3

Charles Babage had built the first analytical engine... was a mechanical device with gears in 1842 AD... and is claimed to be the father of computers.

"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.

For the major milestones in computer history go here..
http://inventors.about.com/library/blcoindex.htm

Answer 4

Charles Babbage's 1840s Analytical Engine. It didn't incorporate the vital idea which is now exploited by the computer in the modern sense, the idea of storing programs in the same form as data and intermediate working. His machine was designed to store programs on cards, while the working was to be done by mechanical cogs and wheels.

Answer 5

Charles Babbage

Answer 6

CHARLES BABBAGE is considered 2 be the Father of computers.In 1842 he came out with the 'analytical engine' that is said 2 be the forerunner of modern digital computers.

Answer 7

Abacus

Answer 8

God before he created men, but he kept it until sometime in the 1950's, then he release it to man.

Answer 9

simple
man. for his use