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Who invented the computer and how? Who Invented The First Computer? Posted In: Household Items. Bookmark and Share When you ask the question stated above, you definitely need to be prepared to hear many different answers. There is not one simple answer to the question because there have been many types of computers (or computing machines) dating back to the 1800’s. Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer Charles Babbage is credited as the inventor of the first mechanical computer. The first, programmable “computing machine” Without getting too technical, the first “computing machine” was created by Charles Babbage in 1822. His idea was not really to create a computer as we know them today, but instead, to create a machine that would compute math problems. He was tired of human errors in completing math problems, so he sought to create an infallible math machine, but what he got instead was a machine that was the basis for what we know now as the computer. Birthplace Charles Babbage was born in England, and spent his life and career there. England is proud of its son, and some of his works are displayed at a museum in London. Charles attended Trinity College at Cambridge University, and completed his studies at Peterhouse Cambridge in mathematics. This education would help to guide him to his life’s most important work. The Babbage machine Charles Babbage’s machine, the Babbage machine was the first programmable, analytical machine and it was a fully automatic calculating machine. Fundamentally, modern day computers do the same thing, read a program and execute it. It was programmable The unique thing about Babbage’s machine was that you could program it. Previous invention of the calculator was already available but worked on a fixed sets of rules. Invention of the computer Isn’t it amazing that the invention Babbage sought to create ended up being something that would benefit human life centuries later? Babbage used the knowled