FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Babbage is associated with:
A
census
B
analytical engine
C
numerical calculating machine
D
slide rule
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -Analytical Engine, generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in the 19th century (he worked on it until his death in 1871).

Detailed explanation-2: -Charles Babbage, 1791–1871 Invented the Analytical Engine, the world’s first mechanical computer.

Detailed explanation-3: -This analytical engine, the first fully-automatic calculating machine, was constructed by British computing pioneer Charles Babbage (1791-1871), who first conceived the idea of an advanced calculating machine to calculate and print mathematical tables in 1812.

Detailed explanation-4: -English mathematician and inventor Charles Babbage is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine. Although it was never completed, the Analytical Engine would have had most of the basic elements of the present-day computer.

Detailed explanation-5: -The Analytical Engine was the first general-purpose computer on record. Designed and proposed by Charles Babbage, father of the modern computer, the analytical engine was the successor to his Difference Engine.

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