COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Charles Babbage
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Christopher Columbus
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Albert Einstein
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Stephen Hawking
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Detailed explanation-1: -The calculating engines of English mathematician Charles Babbage (1791-1871) are among the most celebrated icons in the prehistory of computing. Babbage’s Difference Engine No.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Analytical Engine was to be a general-purpose, fully program-controlled, automatic mechanical digital computer. It would be able to perform any calculation set before it. There is no evidence that anyone before Babbage had ever conceived of such a device, let alone attempted to build one.
Detailed explanation-3: -The Babbage Analytical Engine, 1833, is considered the first steam-powered computer. Charles Babbage is considered by many to be the ‘Father of the Computer’ and his assistant, Lady Ada Lovelace, the ‘First Computer Programmer’ because she wrote mathematics problems for Babbage’s machines. 3.