COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Herman Hollerith
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Blaise Pascal
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Charles Babbage
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Howard Aiken
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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. 1 was the first successful automatic calculator and remains one of the finest examples of precision engineering of the time.
Detailed explanation-2: -He left Cambridge, obsessed with the idea of using machines to speed up time-consuming mathematical calculations. Thus the idea of a Difference Engine was born. Charles also envisioned a machine that would handle more decimal places to speed the process of “carrying” and “borrowing."
Detailed explanation-3: -Difference Engine, an early calculating machine, verging on being the first computer, designed and partially built during the 1820s and ‘30s by Charles Babbage.