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today computer is a very usefull & important electronic device.

2007-02-24 23:50:39 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Education & Reference Homework Help

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Feel free to open links and decide who gets all of the credit. No one person made it what it is today is was a series of inventions that led to this wonderful machine.
Good luck!

http://inventors.about.com/library/weekly/aa050298.htm
..................Konrad Zuse....................
earned the semiofficial title of "inventor of the modern computer" for his series of automatic calculators, which he invented to help him with his lengthy engineering calculations....................................................................................................................... George Stibitz
was an inventor, recognized as the father of the modern digital computer
in 1939 - National Inventors Hall of Fame.
The First Electronic Digital Computer
In 1937, George Stibitz decided that the electromechanical relays that were the chief components in telephone switching systems could be used for another purpose.
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http://inventors.about.com/od/istartinventions/a/internet.htm
Father of the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee
was the man leading the development of the World Wide Web (with help of course), the defining of HTML (hypertext markup language) used to create web pages, HTTP (HyperText Transfer Protocol) and URLs (Universal Resource Locators).
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/atanasoff.htm
Milestones:
1903 Born October 4, 1903 in Hamilton, New York
1939 Atanasoff developed the Atanasoff Berry Computer (ABC) with Clifford Berry
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1973 U.S. Court declares that the ENIAC computer is a copy of the ABC computer
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http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventors/engelbart.htm

Fascinating facts about Douglas Engelbart
inventor of the computer mouse in 1968.

Douglas Engelbart had invented a number of interactive, user-friendly information access systems that we take for granted today: the computer mouse, windows, shared-screen teleconferencing, hypermedia, GroupWare, and more.

2007-02-25 01:15:30 · answer #1 · answered by LucySD 7 · 0 0

It is difficult to define any one device as the earliest computer. The very definition of a computer has changed and it is therefore impossible to identify the first computer. Many devices once called "computers" would no longer qualify as such by today's standards.

Originally, the term "computer" referred to a person who performed numerical calculations (a human computer), often with the aid of a mechanical calculating device. Examples of early mechanical computing devices included the abacus, the slide rule and arguably the astrolabe and the Antikythera mechanism (which dates from about 150-100 BC). The end of the Middle Ages saw a re-invigoration of European mathematics and engineering, and Wilhelm Schickard's 1623 device was the first of a number of mechanical calculators constructed by European engineers.

2007-02-25 08:12:38 · answer #2 · answered by Mortis 4 · 0 0

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