COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Charles Babbage
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Augusta ada lovelace
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Reynold
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None of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -The analytical engine was a proposed mechanical general-purpose computer designed by English mathematician and computer pioneer Charles Babbage. It was first described in 1837 as the successor to Babbage’s difference engine, which was a design for a simpler mechanical calculator .
Detailed explanation-2: -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-3: -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.