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History of Computer

An English mechanical Engineer named Charles Babbage originated the concept of a programmable computer. He is considered the “Father of the computer”. He invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century which in 1833 was upgraded to the more general design. The input method of this machine was via punch cards and for outputs, the machine would have a printer, a curve plotter, and a bell. This machine would also be able to punch numbers onto cards to be read in the letter. The machine was ahead of its time thus all the parts of this machine had to be made by hand which was very costly. The British government decided to dissolve the project to cease funding. Although Charles Babbage failed to develop a complete computer; his son Henry Babbage completed a simplified version of the analytical engine’s computing unit which was known as the Mill in 1888. He gave a successful demonstration of its use in computing tables in 1906.

There are two types of computers. Analog and Digital. Although we don’t see any analog computer any more nowadays, these analog computers were the grandfather of our digital computer of today. Analog computers were basically used for solving differential equations. These computers were mostly used in the mathematical fields to solve major problems in a short time. These Analog computers evolved day after day and centuries after centuries and now it’s all digital computers.

Digital Computers are modern-day computers that we use every day. Starting from our apple watch to our Phone, PC, Laptop, Gaming system, VR, etc all are digital computers. Modern-day we cannot live without computers. Computers are being used in all different kinds of fields all over the world. It is impossible to think of our world without computers today.