BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Joseph Marie Jacquard
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Charles Babbage
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Blaise Pascal
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Thomas Edison
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Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed the first automatic computing engines.
Detailed explanation-2: -Difference Engine, an early calculating machine, verging on being the first computer, designed and partially built during the 1820s and ‘30s by Charles Babbage.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed two classes of engine, Difference Engines, and Analytical Engines. Difference engines are so called because of the mathematical principle on which they are based, namely, the method of finite differences.
Detailed explanation-4: -7. Difference between Difference engine and Analytical engine. Analytical Engines can solve any set of calculations with the help of a processor, punch cards, and a bunch of codes. While the difference engine is a mechanical calculator that was designed to calculate polynomial functions.