COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Blaise Pascal
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Leibniz
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Sir John Napier
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Charles Babbage
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Detailed explanation-1: -In 1821 Babbage invented the Difference Engine to compile mathematical tables. On completing it in 1832, he conceived the idea of a better machine that could perform not just one mathematical task but any kind of calculation.
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: -He is Charles Babbage, the man who more than 150 years ago first faintly glimpsed today’s computer age and strove to reach it. The Difference Engine is a calculator. It prepares numerical tables using a mathematical technique known as the method of difference.