FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS

HISTORY OF COMPUTERS

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
The Analytical engine was designed in ____
A
1801
B
1833
C
1890
D
500 BC
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -In 1833 Charles Babbage (1791-1871) conceived an ambitious plan for a general purpose calculating machine which in many features of its design is functionally analogous to the modern computer.

Detailed explanation-2: -The Babbage Analytical Engine, 1833, is considered the first steam-powered computer. Charles Babbage is considered by many to be the ‘Father of the Computer’ and his assistant, Lady Ada Lovelace, the ‘First Computer Programmer’ because she wrote mathematics problems for Babbage’s machines. 3.

Detailed explanation-3: -The Analytical Engine With the construction project stalled, and freed from the nuts and bolts of detailed construction, Babbage conceived, in 1834, a more ambitious machine, later called Analytical Engine, a general-purpose programmable computing engine.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The Analytical Engine was a general-purpose, completely program-controlled, mechanical digital computer with no human intervention. The store intended to be large enough to contain 1, 000 50-digit numbers, which was more than any computer constructed before 1960 could store.

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