clem57 - a bit of a trick question perhaps, as I believe that 'computer' originally referred to that of a person who computes/calculates (e.g. someone who created mathematical tables) and thus the term computer was presumably in use long before the mechanical and electronic machines appeared on the scene. So I'd probably have to go with 'mother nature' as the inventor.
clem57 - a bit of a trick question perhaps, as I believe that 'computer' originally referred to that of a person who computes/calculates (e.g. someone who created mathematical tables) and thus the term computer was presumably in use long before the mechanical and electronic machines appeared on the scene. So I'd probably have to go with 'mother nature' as the inventor.
This is true. My Dad was a "geodetic computer" in the Army Air Corps, and used a Marchant calculator to assist with his computations. What we call a "computer" today used to be called an "automatic computer" or "electronic computer". The names of lot of early automatic computers ended with "AC".
clem57 - a bit of a trick question perhaps, as I believe that 'computer' originally referred to that of a person who computes/calculates (e.g. someone who created mathematical tables) and thus the term computer was presumably in use long before the mechanical and electronic machines appeared on the scene. So I'd probably have to go with 'mother nature' as the inventor.
This is true. My Dad was a "geodetic computer" in the Army Air Corps, and used a Marchant calculator to assist with his computations. What we call a "computer" today used to be called an "automatic computer" or "electronic computer". The names of lot of early automatic computers ended with "AC".
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