Jun 14, 2025 · The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer, developed by Tommy Flowers, and was first demonstrated in December 1943. The Colossus was created to help the …

Oct 20, 2023 · The first computer that resembled the modern machines we see today was invented by Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871. He developed a device, the analytical engine, and …

Jan 24, 2022 · Although Frenchman Joseph Marie Jacquard’s punch card loom preceded it by some two decades, the first mechanical computer is almost universally accepted to have been Charles …

ENIAC (/ ˈɛniæk /; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) [1][2] was the first programmable, electronic, general-purpose digital computer, completed in 1945. [3][4] Other computers had some of …

Feb 6, 2026 · Until this breakthrough, all the mechanical aids to calculation were merely calculators or, like the Difference Engine, glorified calculators. The Analytical Engine, although not actually …

Dec 18, 2025 · 1848: Ada Lovelace, an English mathematician and the daughter of poet Lord Byron, writes the world's first computer program.

Aug 12, 2025 · Who Invented the First Computer? There is no single person who can be credited with inventing the first computer, as it depends on how one defines the term.

Conceived by Harvard physics professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark 1 is a room-sized, relay-based calculator. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft running …

But even by then the idea of a computer wasn’t exactly new. In the early 19th century, there was Charles Babbage—a man whose brilliant mind conceived the fundamental principles of modern computing, a …

Nov 8, 2022 · In the electronic era, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (1942) performed digital calculations using binary, while the ENIAC (1945) was the first general-purpose electronic computer, capable of …