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    Physicist John Atanasoff built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. "The first telephone proved to be useless until the arrival of the second," he says. The "discovery" of the computer is attributed to a gentleman by the name of Charles Babbage.

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    Physicist John Atanasoff built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. "The first telephone proved to be useless until the arrival of the second," he says. The "discovery" of the computer is attributed to a gentleman by the name of Charles Babbage.

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    Physicist John Atanasoff built the first rudimentary electronic computer in the late 1930s and early 1940s. "The first telephone proved to be useless until the arrival of the second," he says. The "discovery" of the computer is attributed to a gentleman by the name of Charles Babbage.

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    Noan R.

    Maestro BSHM CA 1-2

    June 22,2011

    Invention 1.Analytical Engine Computer 2.Electronic Digital Computer 3.Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC) 4.Universal Automatic Computer (UNIUAC) 5.Electronic Storage Delay Automatic Calculator Computer (EDSAC)

    Inventor 1.Charles Babbage 2.Howard Alien 3.John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry 4.Remington Rand 5.Maurice Wilkes

    Year 1.1837 2.1900-1973 3.1939 4.1951 5.1949

    Who discover Computer? American physicist John Atanasoff 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. Who "Discovered" the Computer? Spike Milligan, in his book The Little Pot Boiler, wrote a short piece called "Telephones". In his usual madcap manner he talks about The Telephone as having been "discovered" in the same way that penicillin for example was accidentally discovered by Alexander Fleming. I must share with you a quote from this piece, which I hope you will find as funny - and profound - as I did. "The first telephone proved to be useless until the arrival of the second." Unfortunately, Spike is no longer with us. If he were, I think I would ask him to write something in a similar vein about the discovery of the computer. I doubt if he would stick to the facts! However, it's possible he may have modified the above quote by saying that the first computer proved to be useless because nobody knew how to use it. Which is more or less true. I'm referring to a contraption shown below called the Difference Engine. Amazing contraption, isn't it!

    The "discovery" of this beast is attributed to a gentleman by the name of Charles Babbage. I had to tell you all this in case you didn't already know. Otherwise, you'd have no idea what this cartoon is all about!

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