{"id":330,"date":"2010-04-20T11:24:02","date_gmt":"2010-04-20T19:24:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=330"},"modified":"2010-04-20T11:24:02","modified_gmt":"2010-04-20T19:24:02","slug":"who-invented-the-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=330","title":{"rendered":"Who invented the computer?"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>In 1837, Charles Babbage designed a general purpose computer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Analytical_engine\">Analytical Engine<\/a>, but never built it.<\/li>\n<li>Between 1934 and 1937, Church, Turing et al. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Church-Turing_thesis\">defined<\/a> the general purpose computer, but didn&#8217;t design one.<\/li>\n<li>In 1941, Konrad Zuse built the first general purpose computer, the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Z3_(computer)\">Z3<\/a>, but <a href=\"http:\/\/www.zib.de\/zuse\/Inhalt\/Kommentare\/Html\/0684\/universal2.html\">didn&#8217;t know<\/a> it was general purpose and didn&#8217;t use it that way.<\/li>\n<li>From 1943 to 1946, Mauchly and Eckert finally built a computer, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/ENIAC\">ENIAC<\/a>, that was designed to be general-purpose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1837, Charles Babbage designed a general purpose computer, the Analytical Engine, but never built it. Between 1934 and 1937, Church, Turing et al. defined the general purpose computer, but didn&#8217;t design one. In 1941, Konrad Zuse built the first general purpose computer, the Z3, but didn&#8217;t know it was general purpose and didn&#8217;t use &#8230; <a title=\"Who invented the computer?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/?p=330\" aria-label=\"Read more about Who invented the computer?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archeology","category-trivia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=330"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.pagetable.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}