COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
Question
[CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
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UNIVAC
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Abacus
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Vacuum Tubes
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Slide Rule
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Detailed explanation-1: -ABACUS (3003 BC) Upper Beads • The abacus was invented in 3000 BC in Babylonia. Deck Beam • It consists of beads on rods to count and calculate. Rods Lower • It is still widely used in Asia.
Detailed explanation-2: -The first all electronic computer was the Electrical Numerical Integrator and Calculator, known as ENIAC. It was designed by J. Prosper Eckert and John W. Mauchly of the Moore School of Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania.
Detailed explanation-3: -Detailed Solution. The correct answer is Charles Babbage. During the mid-1830s Charles Babbage developed plans for the Analytical Engine. He was an English mathematician and inventor of computers, he was credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.