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Who invented first computer?

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Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the concept of a programmable computer. Considered the "father of the computer", he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.

People also ask, which year computer came in India?

Even though the world got introduced to the computer technology in late forties, India bought its first computer in 1956 for a princely sum of Rs 10 lakh. It was called HEC-2M and was installed at Calcutta's Indian Statistical Institute.

Which was the first computer of the world?

The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons.

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Who invented the first PC?

The first personal computer. In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971.

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Who invented the mouse for the computer?

Douglas Engelbart

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Who is the inventor of the first Apple computer?

Steve Wozniak

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Who built the first computer?

We could argue that the first computer was the abacus or its descendant, the slide rule, invented by William Oughtred in 1622. But the first computer resembling today's modern machines was the Analytical Engine, a device conceived and designed by British mathematician Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871.

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Who invented you?

Hopper invented the compiler that translated written language into computer code and coined the terms "bug" and "debugging" when she had to remove moths from the device. In 1959, Hopper was part of the team that developed COBOL, one of the first modern programming languages.

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Who wrote the first computer program?

Countess of Lovelace

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Who is the inventor of electricity?

Benjamin Franklin

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Who created the first digital computer?

John Vincent Atanasoff

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Who is the inventor of computer virus?

The first widespread virus for an IBM PC operating system was called Brain. Like Elk Cloner, it was also a boot sector virus, although its creators had little in common with Skrenta. Pakistani brothers Basit and Amjad Farooq Alvi say they had't heard of him or Elk Cloner when they wrote Brain in 1986.

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Who is the father of the computer?

Charles Babbage

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Who made the first pen?

The first patent on a ballpoint pen was issued on October 30, 1888, to John J Loud. In 1938, László Bíró, a Hungarian newspaper editor, with the help of his brother George, a chemist, began to design new types of pens, including one with a tiny ball in its tip that was free to turn in a socket.

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What is the name of the first computer?

Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer

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Which is the first electronic computer?

The first general purpose programmable electronic computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania.

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Who is the inventor of the personal computer?

Henry Edward Roberts, designer of the Altair 8800 Computer, "deserves credit as the inventor of the personal computer," Cerruzi asserts. "Although calling Roberts the inventor makes sense only in the context of all that came before him . . . he does deserve the credit." C'mon IBM, have a heart.

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When the Internet was invented?

ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. The online world then took on a more recognizable form in 1990, when computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web.

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Who invented the airplane?

The Wright brothers, Orville (August 19, 1871 – January 30, 1948) and Wilbur (April 16, 1867 – May 30, 1912), were two American aviators, engineers, inventors, and aviation pioneers who are generally credited with inventing, building, and flying the world's first successful airplane.

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What is the first desktop computer?

Personal computer history doesn't begin with IBM or Microsoft, although Microsoft was an early participant in the fledgling PC industry. The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS Altair 8800, followed by the IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone. (Yes, cloning has been around that long!)

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Who invented the refrigerator and when?

William Cullen at the University of Glasgow demonstrated the first artificial refrigeration system in the year 1748. However, he never used his discovery for practical purposes. In the year 1805, US inventor Oliver Evans, designed the first refrigeration machine that didn't use liquid and instead used vapor to cool.

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Which is the first computer game?

The first computer game is generally assumed to be the game Spacewar!, developed in 1962 at MIT (Stephen Russell a.o.). Spacewar originally ran on a PDP-1 computer the size of a large car. By today's standards, the graphics are rather primitive, although less primitive than many games form the 1980's.

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Who is known as the father of modern computer science?

Alan Turing

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