Who invented the computer?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

You can get at least six different answers with six different definitions of "computer", from Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine (England, c.1840) to the relay computers of George Stibitz or Konrad Zuse, John V. Atanasoff's ABC computer at Iowa State College around 1940, Tommy Flowers' Colossus codebreaking computer at Bletchley Park in 1943, Howard Aitken's ASCC calculator at Harvard in 1944, and Eckert and Mauchly's ENIAC electronic calculator at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, Pennsylvania, in 1946.

But what none of these proto-computers had, and which every later true computer had (as emphasised above by sparks9653), was a single type of store in which the program instructions, and the data they worked on, were kept and read and written in exactly the same way as each other. This idea was published by John von Neumann of the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton, in 1946. Modern writers think that he has received far more credit for this great insight than he would actually have wanted for himself, and that he had based it very much on the ideas of the English mathematician and logician Alan Turing.

The first machine to work according to the new von Neumann design was the Manchester Small Scale Experimental Machine, or "Baby" for short, at Manchester in England on 21 June 1948. It was built by Freddie Williams and Tom Kilburn. This is the date which the British Computer Society observes as the birthday of electronic computers.

Answer 3

Depends on what you call a computer. The Chinese Abacus has been around for thousands of years and it can compute numbers faster than most hand held caculators and a computer if you know how to use it.

Then there is the Baggage Engine. The Computer that was never made.

In 1938 Konrad Zeuse made the Z1 the first programmable computer.

In 1944 the Harvard MArk 1

Most people, I think, credit the Eniac used by the Army in the mid 1942s to compute firing tables as the first working computer, followed by the Univac

The modern computer you have was created by a team of engineers at Intel, I believe, under contract to a Japanese firm to make calculator chips.

They made a full blown CPU with the 4004 and then the 8008 and then the 8080 and 8088 and 8086 and finally the Zilog Z80 chip, which was in the Altair and TRS-80

Answer 4

Charles Babbage's 1840s Analytical Engine the design for a computer. 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.

There were other differences — he did not have electronics or even electricity, and he still thought in base-10 arithmetic. But more fundamental is the rigid separation of instructions and data in Babbage's thought. hundred years later, in the early 1940s, electromagnetic relays could be used instead of gearwheels. But no-one had advanced on Babbage's principle. Builders of large calculators might put the program on a roll of punched paper rather than cards, but the idea was the same: you built machinery to do arithmetic, and then you arranged for instructions coded in some other form, stored somewhere else, to make the machinery

Answer 5

Many say the first computer is the "difference engine." The first of these devices was conceived in 1786 by J. H. Mueller. It was never built.

Difference engines were forgotten and then rediscovered in 1822 by Charles Babbage. This machine used the decimal numbers system and was powered by cranking a handle. The British government first financed the project but then later cut off support. Babbage went on to design his much more general analytical engine but later returned and produced an improved design (his "Difference Engine No. 2") between 1847 and 1849. Charles Babbage just made a mechanical computing machine.

Others point out that this is the first ELECTRONIC computer. The earliest computer known is the Antikythera Machine, a mechanical device that computed the positions of the astrological signs on any given date, past or future. It was discovered in an ancient shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and dates to approximately 250 BC. The designer/builder is not known, but because of its similarity to other mechanical devices known to have been designed by Archimedes, it is probably his work.

If you mean Electronic Computer, It was a man called Alan Turing from Cambridge UK, who was draughted in to Bletchley park secret base where they worked at cracking the WW2 enigma codes that the Germans used every day. The Germans changed their Enigma machines to a four digit code maker. However, Because what went on at Bletchley Park the computer made from thousands of valves was kept top secret up untill recently. The computer, named Colossus was smashed to pieces at the end of the war. The buildings have now been restored as a tourist centre.

The first computer, or "modern computer" was invented in World War II by a German engineer, Konrad Zuse in 1941 called the Z3. It was an analog computer designed to simulate the guidance system for the rockets. It was built in secret because the higher-ups had not given their permission for this project. Konrad Zuse invented the z1, z2, z3, z4 and other ones. The z3 was the first fully functional program-controlled electromaechanical digital computer in the world-completed in 1941.

"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.

The first electronic computer was invented by John Vincent Ansoff. He named it the Anatasoff Berry Computer, or the ABC.

Now, if we're talking technical knowledge and actual precursors to the PC - IBM may have accidentally spread it around when they allowed cloning of the PC architecture. But they were not the first.

These are all pre-IBM machines: MITS ALTAIR 8800, Apple II, TRS80, Attari 800 and the Commodore 64.

Purists who claim that the ALTAIR was not the first, will say it was 'Simon' by Berkley Enterprises, 1950, costing $300.

The first completely electronic computer was developed in England in 1943. It was known as Colossus. It took up 1,000 Sq. ft. weighed 30 tons/60,000 pounds. And took 150 kilowatts which is enough power to light up a small town.

The first computer was developed by Charles Babbage. It was called the Differencial and Analytical Engine. The programmer for this computer was Ada Lovelace (first programmer).

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There are A lot of people involved. History records Charles Babbage as the first to use them in a meaningful way.

Answer 6

There have been many contributors over the course of the technology. Probably the most ground-breaking work, though, was done by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, who created the ENIAC for the US Army's use at the Aberdeen Proving Ground. The ENIAC was the first all-electronic computer that actually worked.

Answer 7

IBM had a rough computer system operating in 1939 - 1940's The Ethiopean maths system is the same model used for modern day computers.

Answer 8

It doesnt go back from thousands of years. It has been here for about 50 years. Bill Gates didnt invent it. He invented the internet. Dr.muusso invented the computer itself

Answer 9

Computers have been around for decades...the personal computer were built by Apple in the 70's.

Answer 10

People have been working on that stuff for hundreds of years. I can't remember all of the major names. Wikipedia will know. Babbage and Turing are some early ones.

(edit: yeah guy who says thousands is more correct )

Answer 11

A computer is a simply a device that can compute true or false, thus the binary code. So since any brain on the planet can do just that you could say that the Creator, whoever you believe in, is the true inventor of the computer.