GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

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: -Many Computer Firsts The first electronic programmable computer, called the Colossus, was invented in 1943 and helped British code breakers to read encrypted German messages during World War 2. And from there, we have the invention of the first digital computer in 1946.

Detailed explanation-3: -Its original aims were to reduce astronomical calculations to a more standard form, and to circulate data. These directions were closely connected with Babbage’s ideas on computation, and in 1824 he won its Gold Medal, cited “for his invention of an engine for calculating mathematical and astronomical tables".