Who invented the computer. And what year?

Answer 1

Whoever created the abacus, and whatever year that it was created.

Answer 2

Charles babbage may have made some kind of computer in the 1800's - For most of Charles’ life he was determined to build his own calculating machine.

He asked, and persuaded he British government to give him £17,000 for the project, (in those days that was a very large sum of money!) He also contributed £6,000 of his own money towards the project.

Babbage worked hard on the new invention, but in the end he never finished it. The main reason was that the machine that could be built at the time was too clumsy for what Babbage wanted it to do. Charles Babbage is known as ‘the father of the modern computers’ today, because the original designs for the computer were his idea.

Alan Turin first developed the computer after Charles Babbage during the Second World War. Turing was an English mathematician, wartime code-breaker and pioneer of computer science.

Alan Turing was born on 23 June 1912 in London. His father was in the Indian Civil Service and Turing's parents lived in India until his father's retirement in 1926. Turing and his brother stayed with friends and relatives in England. Turing studied mathematics at Cambridge University, and subsequently taught there, working in the burgeoning world of quantum mechanics. It was at Cambridge that he developed the proof which states that automatic computation cannot solve all mathematical problems. This concept, also known as the Turing machine, is considered the basis for the modern theory of computation.

In 1936 Turing went to Princeton University in America, returning to England in 1938. He began to work secretly part-time for the British cryptanalytic department, the Government Code and Cypher School. On the outbreak of war he took up full-time work at its headquarters, Bletchley Park.

Here he played a vital role in deciphering the messages encrypted by the German enigma machine, which provided vital intelligence for the Allies. He took the lead in a team that designed a machine known as a 'Bomba' that successfully decoded German messages. He became a well-known and rather eccentric figure at Bletchley.

After the war, Turing turned his thoughts to the development of a machine that would logically process information. He worked first for the National Physical Laboratory (1945 - 1948). His plans were dismissed by his colleagues and the lab lost out on being the first to design a digital computer. It is thought that Turing's blueprint would have secured them the honour, as his machine was capable of computation speeds higher than the others. In 1949 he went to Manchester University where he directed the computing laboratory and developed a body of work that helped to form the basis for the field of artificial intelligence. In 1951 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

Answer 3

The Atanasoff-Berry Computer was the world's first electronic digital computer. It was built by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University during 1937-42. It incorporated several major innovations in computing including the use of binary arithmetic, regenerative memory, parallel processing, and separation of memory and computing functions.

Charles Babbage designs the Analytical Machine that follows instructions from punched-cards. It is the first general purpose computer.

Answer 4

The thermionic valve discovered 1904was found to be useful as a counting device by Wynn Williams in 1931.The Harvard Mark 1 Computer designed by Howard Aiken is the worlds first digital computer which made use of electro-mechanical device.It was developed jointly by the International Business Machines (IBM) and the Harvard University in 1944.

Answer 5

Steve Jobs invented the first computer (an apple) in i believe 1962

Answer 6

Charles Babbage, 1822

Answer 7

Charles babbage made some kind of computer in the 1800's, however funding stopped and he never made it, In 1991 they loooked at his plans and made it and it worked!!!!!! It used a vacum and punch cards, he made an analitical machine and something else, see the wikipedia article on him....

Answer 8

Charles babbage made some kind of computer in the 1800's...

he is said to be the king of computer but they think bill gates is

Answer 9

Archemedies. Sometime around 200 B.C.

Answer 10

In the 1920's by IBM. It was the first one and it was huge that it took up the whole room and was very noisy while having little memory.

Answer 11

David C should have just listed the web site rather than copying the whole story here... Here's one of them: