List 2 inventors of the computer
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Answer:
Charles Babbage and Konrad Zuse
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Who invented computers?

Computers, love them or hate them, we rely on them every day. In fact, you’re using one right now! But, have you ever stopped to think about who invented computers and how they came to dominate our lives? So who invented the first computer and who can I blame for all those wasted hours?
You might be surprised to learn that many computer pioneers struggled to get funding for their ideas and faced skepticism from their contemporaries. The word “computer” is also much older than you might think!
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Who invented computers?...
The first computer, the Antikythera mechanism (200 BC – 70 BC) was mechanical. Originally computers were people – it was a job title. The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991! Alan Turing invented computer science. The ENIAC (1945) was the first electronic general-purpose digital computer, it filled a room. The Micral N was the world’s first “personal computer”(1973). It was not, a commercial success. The Epson HX-20 (1981) was the world’s first laptop, although you wouldn’t recognize it as a laptop today. The first Mac was debuted in 1984.


The first computer
Early computers were actually people, not machines – it was a job title. The word dates back to 1613. “Computers” were people who performed complex calculations, essentially they were mathematicians and bookkeepers.
The first time the word “computer” was used to describe a machine was 1897.
Who made the first computer?
The first computer, that we know about, is the Antikythera mechanism (200 BC – 70 BC). It is an ancient-Geek, hand-powered mechanical device. Archeologists believe it was used to calculate eclipses and other astronomical events.
A reconstruction of the Antikythera – the world’s first “computer”.
The Antikythera mechanism was a 34 cm × 18 cm × 9 cm (13.4 in × 7.1 in × 3.5 in) inscription covered, wooden box, with at least 30 gears. Due to its complexity, many speculate that it had several, less complex predecessors.
In the centuries that followed, numerous clockwork “calculation machines” were created. Generally, these fulfilled a single purpose.
Who invented computers?
Charles Babbage
Charles Babbage, an English polymath, is often thought of as “the man who invented computers”. From 1822 until his death in 1871, he designed 3 computers, but never actually constructed any of them, due to lack of funding.
In 1822 Babbage started working on a Difference Engine its purpose was to compute polynomial functions. If completed it would have had some 25,000 parts, weighed 13,600 kg (15 short tons) and been 2.4 m (8 ft) tall.
Between 1847–1849 Babbage created drawings for the Difference Engine No. 2, a second “computer”. Finally, In 1991, the British Science museum constructed the design from Babbage’s original plans. Amazingly, it worked! It took 6 years to build, weighs 4535.92kg (five short tons), measures 2.1 m, 3.4m, 0.5m (6’11” x 11’2” x 1’8”) and has 8,000 parts.
The Analytical Engine, a later Babbage computer design, would have had a whopping 675 bytes of memory! He named the CPU = The Mill” and the memory “the store”. Punch cards were used as input, based on the Jacquard Loom punch card system, invented at the turn of the 19th century.
In Babbage’s time calculations were typically done by human computers and were frequently full of error. He saw mechanical computers as a way to remove error. Over a 10 year period, he received a staggering £17,000 (over £2,000,000 in 2020) from the British government, unfortunately, they eventually lost faith in his idea and cut the funding.