Who discovered the computer ? and when? (8)
blackbird4444london, Greater London, England UK4 Threads 4 PostsAmerican(BULGARIAN) physicist John Atanasoff(BULGARIAN IMMIGRANT) built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although for several decades afterward credit for the first electronic computer went to the scientists who assembled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for the United States military by 1945. Danish physicist Allan Mackintosh recounts in a Scientific American article how Atanasoff first conceived of the design principles that are still used in present-day computers.
blackbird4444: American(BULGARIAN) physicist John Atanasoff(BULGARIAN IMMIGRANT) built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although for several decades afterward credit for the first electronic computer went to the scientists who assembled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for the United States military by 1945. Danish physicist Allan Mackintosh recounts in a Scientific American article how Atanasoff first conceived of the design principles that are still used in present-day computers.
The "Z" computer invented by Konrad Zuse. In 1940, it was the world's first programmable computer. One of it's first functions was used in providing train schedules or the ones coming and going from the concentration camps so that the maximum numbers of trains could be packed, then unloaded at railheads such as at Auschwitz from either Eastern Europe or the West of Europe. (IBM provided the punch cards for other types of machines. After the war, he founded the Zuse Computer Company which was later taken over by Siemens in the early 60's.
Zuse himself had basically lost control of his invention to the SS, or to be precise, the Ahnenerbe SS which remained active until the 70's at least. In some of the camps, like Sobidor, controlled by these people, circuits were soldered with gold extracted from the teeth of their victims.
Today, the Zuse computer has mainly been forgotten...
blackbird4444: American(BULGARIAN) physicist John Atanasoff(BULGARIAN IMMIGRANT) built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s, although for several decades afterward credit for the first electronic computer went to the scientists who assembled the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) for the United States military by 1945. Danish physicist Allan Mackintosh recounts in a Scientific American article how Atanasoff first conceived of the design principles that are still used in present-day computers.
The oldest machine that we can call "computer" is called Antikythera mechanism. you can google and read about it.
"The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to most computers today which are digital computers) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to about 150-100 BC. It is especially notable for being a technological artifact with no known predecessor or successor; other machines using technology of such complexity would not appear until the 18th century"
The first programmable computer was Babbage's Analytical Engine, designed and built by Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871). The first computer programmer, was Ada Lovelace, who worked closely with Babbage.
by the way, there are no SUPER RACE in the world. just humans. from different places.
Bogart_1960: The oldest machine that we can call "computer" is called Antikythera mechanism. you can google and read about it.
"The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to most computers today which are digital computers) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to about 150-100 BC. It is especially notable for being a technological artifact with no known predecessor or successor; other machines using technology of such complexity would not appear until the 18th century"
The first programmable computer was Babbage's Analytical Engine, designed and built by Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871). The first computer programmer, was Ada Lovelace, who worked closely with Babbage.by the way, there are no SUPER RACE in the world. just humans. from different places.
"The Antikythera mechanism is believed to be an ancient mechanical analog computer (as opposed to most computers today which are digital computers) designed to calculate astronomical positions. It was discovered in the Antikythera wreck off the Greek island of Antikythera, between Kythera and Crete, and has been dated to about 150-100 BC. It is especially notable for being a technological artifact with no known predecessor or successor; other machines using technology of such complexity would not appear until the 18th century"
The first programmable computer was Babbage's Analytical Engine, designed and built by Charles Babbage (1791 - 1871). The first computer programmer, was Ada Lovelace, who worked closely with Babbage.by the way, there are no SUPER RACE in the world. just humans. from different places.
what is special about the Antikythera mechanism is more complex calculations of the mechanical calendar. first it was build probably around 150 B.C.
for example, the ancients didn't know that the moon has an elliptical orbit, so they didn't know why it sometimes slowed or sped up.
the creator of the mechanism used "epicyclic gears with a "pin-and-slot" mechanism that mimicked this apparent shifting in the moon's movement". this use of epicyclic gears is far ahead of what anyone suspected ancient technology was capable to do.
Scientific American has a two-part video about the mechanism and the imaging techniques used in the research. google it, its worth to see
The principal of the ELECTRONIC computing and reprogrammable machine may have well be put on paper by the Bulgarian born and in USA educated Ivan Atanasov or John Atanasoff if U like, although other researchers and laboratories were devising quite that same thing.
It was the US court who finally ruled out the things for Mr A. mostly coz he was not asking for any payments on his computing machine principles, unlike that very famous American research laboratory that later invented the C language. So it was all for this technology not being burdened while still being in its infancy.
It was the US court who finally ruled out the things for Mr A. mostly coz he was not asking for any payments on his computing machine principles, unlike that very famous American research laboratory that later invented the C language. So it was all for this technology not being burdened while still being in its infancy.
Came across this entry for 1943, December Code breakers at Bletchley Park in Buckinghamshire came up with an electronic machine to break cypher codes called Colossus, a 1500 valve machine that fills an entire room is also claimed to be the world's first programable computer; the first to use digital computer valves. It took 30 minutes to crack one coded message. This was no where near a table top or personal sized computer.
The replica of the Z,(Z1) computer is at the German Technology Museum along with models of the Z2 and Z3's which were far better. The Z1 was all electric; used Boolean Logic and Binary floating numbers. It would fit on an average sized dinning table, rather than take up an entire room. Konrad Zuse then kept making other models smaller. Interesting inventor this man.
For some reason, I had thought that one candidate would be Nicholas Tesla for sure...sort of surprised that he hadn't tried as he was such a noted visionary and electrical genius.
The replica of the Z,(Z1) computer is at the German Technology Museum along with models of the Z2 and Z3's which were far better. The Z1 was all electric; used Boolean Logic and Binary floating numbers. It would fit on an average sized dinning table, rather than take up an entire room. Konrad Zuse then kept making other models smaller. Interesting inventor this man.
For some reason, I had thought that one candidate would be Nicholas Tesla for sure...sort of surprised that he hadn't tried as he was such a noted visionary and electrical genius.
In the early 1800s, long before electronic computers existed Charles Babbage designed a mechanical computer. But he had trouble with funding, and with getting the parts manufactured, so it never worked very well. Theoretically though, it was an incredible machine and every bit a computer.
RayfromUSA: In the early 1800s, long before electronic computers existed Charles Babbage designed a mechanical computer. But he had trouble with funding, and with getting the parts manufactured, so it never worked very well. Theoretically though, it was an incredible machine and every bit a computer.
Amen.
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