Mechanical computer

A mechanical computer is built from mechanical components such as levers and gears, rather than electronic components. ... Mechanical computers can be either analog, using smooth mechanisms such as curved plates or slide rules for computations; or digital, which use gears.

1. What was the first mechanical computer?
2. What are the electronic mechanical computer devices?
3. What is mechanical device?
4. Who is known as father of computer?
5. Who is the mother of the computer?
6. Who invented laptop?
7. Who invented mouse?
8. Who invented Internet?
9. What is mechanical device example?
10. What is mechanical process?
11. What is the difference between mechanical computer and electronic computer?
12. What was the Mark 1 computer used for?
13. Who is known as the first programmer?

What was the first mechanical computer?

Analytical Engine, generally considered the first computer, designed and partly built by the English inventor Charles Babbage in the 19th century (he worked on it until his death in 1871).

What are the electronic mechanical computer devices?

(computer hardware) An early type of computer that used storage wheels, rotary switches, and electromagnetic relays and was programmed by punched paper tape.

What is mechanical device?

adjective [usually ADJECTIVE noun] A mechanical device has parts that move when it is working, often using power from an engine or from electricity.

Who is known as father of computer?

Charles Babbage: "The Father of Computing" ... Babbage is sometimes referred to as "father of computing." The International Charles Babbage Society (later the Charles Babbage Institute) took his name to honor his intellectual contributions and their relation to modern computers.

Who is the mother of the computer?

Ada Lovelace was born into a historically famous family. She could have lived well through her father's fame and her mother's money-instead she decided to write a computational algorithm, earning her the title of the mother of programming, and became the first computer programmer in the mid-1800s_1,2.

Who invented laptop?

Adam Osborne invented the laptop in 1981. Though Osborne 1 was recognized as the first laptop, the concept of a portable computer was given in 1968 by Alan Kay.

Who invented mouse?

Development of the mouse began in the early 1960s by SRI's Douglas Engelbart, while he was exploring the interactions between humans and computers. Bill English, then the chief engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. Designs with multiple buttons soon followed.

Who invented Internet?

Computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn are credited with inventing the Internet communication protocols we use today and the system referred to as the Internet.

What is mechanical device example?

curler, hair curler, crimper, roller - a mechanical device consisting of a cylindrical tube around which the hair is wound to curl it; "a woman with her head full of curlers is not a pretty sight"

What is mechanical process?

The mechanical process is the positing of what is contained in the Notion of mechanism, and therefore, in the first instance, of a contradiction. ... It follows from the Notion just indicated that the interaction of objects takes the form of the positing of the identical relation of the objects.

What is the difference between mechanical computer and electronic computer?

A mechanical computer is a computer that, instead of running on electricity and electrical parts, uses mechanical parts. Unlike electronic computers, which are able to run themselves because of electricity, a mechanical computer receives power from an outside source: the user.

What was the Mark 1 computer used for?

A programmable, electromechanical calculator designed by Professor Howard Aiken. Built by IBM and installed at Harvard in 1944, the Mark I's 765,000 parts were used to string 78 adding machines together. It used paper tape for input and typewriters for output.

Who is known as the first programmer?

"Ada Lovelace: The First Computer Programmer".