BASIC COMPUTER CONCEPTS
HISTORY OF COMPUTERS
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Hollerith’s Tabulating Machine
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Difference Engine
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Harvard Mark I
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Analytical Engine
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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: -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.
Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Babbage (1791-1871), computer pioneer, designed two classes of engine, Difference Engines, and Analytical Engines.
Detailed explanation-4: -Charles Babbage, an English mathematician and pioneer proposed the Analytical Engine, a mechanical general-purpose computer. The successor to Babbage’s difference engine was originally described in 1837.
Detailed explanation-5: -The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No. 1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time.