Who invented the first mechanical computer?

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The first mechanical computer was invented over 2000 years ago in china. It was, of course, the abacus. The first digital computer is credited to Blaise Pascal in 1642. It added number entered using dials. He had some help from his father who was a tax collector! It figures!!!!!

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it was actually charles babage's calculation machine

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None of the above are computers, as they are not Turing complete. They are calculators. (They lack the ability to make decisions based on data.)

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Ok these people don't know what their talking about. the first mechanical computer was made in 1928 by Vannevar Bush.

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The first mechanical computer was Konrad Zuse's Z1, a fully mechanical programmable digital computer.

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Charles Babbage & Augusta Ada King (Lady Lovelace) created the basic format for computers in the 19th Century. Therefore, instrumentally designing the first mechanical computer that would eventually become the modern day computer.

Alan Turing created the Colossus to spy on the Germans and crack military codes in 1943 for the Brittish government

John Atanasoff (Iowa State Univ. Professor) created the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) in 1939. It was capable of solving systems of linear equations.

Howard Aiken (Harvard Professor) created the Mark I in 1944 funded by a 1 million grant from IBM.

Mauchley and Eckert designed the UNIVAC I, the first general purpose commercial computer built in the United States.

 

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