FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
Charles Babbage was an
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Inventor
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Mathematician
C
Polymath
D
All of the answers are correct
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -He was also a mechanical engineer who is well known for orginating the concept of computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -Babbage is sometimes referred to as “father of computing.” The International Charles Babbage Society (later the Charles Babbage Institute) took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Though computers weren’t ever built until the mid-1900s, the first idea for a computer was actually developed starting in 1837. Charles Babbage, born to a wealthy London family in 1791, was the brain behind the idea, and is famous for his work developing plans for two different computers.

Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Babbage, who was born in 1791, is regarded as the father of computing because of his research into machines that could calculate. Babbage’s Difference Engine Number 1 was the first device ever devised that could calculate and print mathematical tables.

Detailed explanation-5: -The British scientist Charles Babbage, the father of computers, thought too. Babbage wanted to build a machine that could perform accurate calculations quickly to avoid errors in navigation and engineering. This is when he came up with the design for the first computer called the Difference Engine in 1822.

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