Charles Babbage

The first computers were designed by Charles Babbage in the mid-1800s, and are sometimes collectively known as the Babbage Engines. These include the Difference Engine No. 1, the Analytical Engine, and the Difference Engine I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I.

I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I Computers have been around for quite some time now. They were developed over many years with help from philosophers, inventors, engineers, mathematicians, physicists, technicians, and scholars. The first computers were calculating machines and over time evolved into the digital computers as we know them today.

In 1642, one of the earliest calculating devices was invented, the Pascaline. It was created by a French philosopher and mathematician Blaise Pascal. The device operated similarly to a clock and was designed to only perform addition. But, Pascal never got the device to function properly