Who Invented The Computer ?
The invention of the computer was a gradual process involving many key figures, but here are some of the most significant contributors:
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Charles Babbage – Often called the "father of the computer", Babbage designed the Analytical Engine in the 1830s. It was a mechanical general-purpose computer, though it was never fully built in his lifetime.
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Alan Turing – A British mathematician and logician who developed the concept of a universal machine (the Turing Machine) in the 1930s, which is the theoretical foundation of modern computers.
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Konrad Zuse – A German engineer who built the Z3 in 1941, considered the first programmable, fully automatic digital computer.
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry – Developed the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) in the late 1930s, an early electronic digital computer.
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John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly – Built the ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) in the U.S. in the 1940s, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer.