COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Question
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This person lived between (1791-1871) and designed the first automatic computer. He designed a steam powered calculating device called the Difference Engine but couldn’t build his design because he didn’t have enough money! Who Was he?
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Alan Turing
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Charles Babbage
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Steve Jobs
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Bill Gates
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Charles Babbage, (born December 26, 1791, London, England-died October 18, 1871, London), English mathematician and inventor who is credited with having conceived the first automatic digital computer.
Detailed explanation-2: -Difference Engine, an early calculating machine, verging on being the first computer, designed and partially built during the 1820s and ‘30s by Charles Babbage.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
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