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CJ asked in Education & ReferenceHomework Help · 1 decade ago

I have a quick question?

Who invented the computer?

I am writting a report on the computer and i need to know who invented it.

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  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago
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    Charles Babbage

  • 1 decade ago

    Charles Babbage is referred to as the "Pioneer of the Computer"...while Alan Turing is the "father of modern Computer Science".

  • ?
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    define computer....

    do you mean electronic?

    or do you mean the concept of programmed algorithms to automate a process in which case you have to go back to the weaving mills in England ... 1700's maybe 1800's

    or do you mean a computer as in a mechanical devise for 'computing' in arithmetic.......... go to ancient China and the abacus

    "Small minds discuss persons. Average minds discuss events. Great minds discuss ideas. Really great minds discuss mathematics."

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