FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

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: -Pascaline, also called Arithmetic Machine, the first calculator or adding machine to be produced in any quantity and actually used. The Pascaline was designed and built by the French mathematician-philosopher Blaise Pascal between 1642 and 1644.

Detailed explanation-3: -Charles Babbage is known as the father of the computer because he was the first to invent the Analytical Engine, which led to the invention of the modern-day computer.

Detailed explanation-4: -Babbage is credited with inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, that eventually led to more complex electronic designs, though all the essential ideas of modern computers are to be found in Babbage’s Analytical Engine, programmed using a principle openly borrowed from the Jacquard loom.