2006-12-15 20:13:28 · 17 answers · asked by Doc 1 in Education & Reference ➔ Quotations
Uhhh, wasn't in Al Gore?
2006-12-15 20:22:48 · answer #1 · answered by RightLeft 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Charles Babbage
2006-12-15 20:16:53 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Joseph Marie Jacquard.
He invented "the Jaquard loom mechanism" in 1804 which used punch cards for weaving patterns automatically on silk. This invention was the first use of binary code and the punch card system was later adopted by Charles Babbage when he designed his Difference engine.
Although it did no computation based on them, it is considered an important step in the history of computing hardware. The ability to change the pattern of the loom's weave by simply changing cards was an important conceptual precursor to the development of computer programming.
2006-12-15 20:34:53 · answer #3 · answered by Andrew R 2 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Charles Babbage invented the concept, but in the early 1800's, when he was alive, nobody had invented electricity, so he could not make that move forward.
A man who was a computer genius was Alan Turing (1912-1954). There are books about him in your local library.
2006-12-15 23:19:27 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Charles Babbage.
2006-12-18 02:06:23 · answer #5 · answered by fizzy_wolf 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Babbage produced the idea for a difference engine - a mechanical way of calculating tables, but it was Ada Lovelace who suggested using a binary system and saw its possibility for playing games (tic-tac-toe). My money is on the lady.
If you extend the definition of computers then the earliest computers were astronomical instruments similar to the one found recently.
2006-12-16 00:24:58 · answer #6 · answered by Tertia 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The mathematician Napier devised a mechanical calculator using
numbered sticks in a frame.
The device earned the name Napier's Bones. Would this qualify as computing?
Check the system on Google. Type in 'Napier's Bones'
2006-12-16 22:11:00 · answer #7 · answered by CurlyQ 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well theres babage with the inference engine but before that the Grecians had some clever mechanical devices for astronomy.
Even before that was Mr Abacus.
Indeed the pyramids were used to count to 3.
2006-12-15 20:20:12 · answer #8 · answered by John S 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
That will be Pascal; with his mechanical calculator, den Babbage and lady Dyron who constructed an imitation "only" of Pascals mechanical calculator.
2006-12-16 01:15:05 · answer #9 · answered by seesunsuf 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is none other than the founder of the difference engine and many such machines CHARLES BABBAGE
2006-12-15 21:34:43 · answer #10 · answered by shivani 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋