COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Charles Babbage
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Howard Aiken
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Blaise Pascal
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John Napier
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Mark I) was the first operating machine that could execute long computations automatically. A project conceived by Harvard University’s Dr. Howard Aiken, the Mark I was built by IBM engineers in Endicott, N.Y.
Detailed explanation-2: -From 1939 to 1944 Aiken, in collaboration with IBM, developed his first fully functional computer, known as the Harvard Mark I. The machine, like Babbage’s, was huge: more than 50 feet (15 metres) long, weighing five tons, and consisting of about 750, 000 separate parts, it was mostly mechanical.
Detailed explanation-3: -Mark I was designed in 1937 by Harvard graduate student Howard H. Aiken to solve advanced mathematical physics problems encountered in his research. Aiken’s ambitious proposal envisioned the use of modified, commercially-available technologies coordinated by a central control system.