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Difference engines were forgotten and then rediscovered in 1822 by Englishman Charles Babbage. He is known as "the father of the Computer". This machine used the decimal numbers system and was powered by cranking a handle. The British government first financed the project but then  Thomas Sabo Rings Sale later cut off support. Babbage went on to design his much more general analytical engine but later returned and produced an improved design (his "Difference Engine No. 2") between 1834 and 1869.

Others point out that this is the first electronic computer. The earliest computer known is the Antikythera Machine, a mechanical device that computed the positions of the astrological signs on any given date, past or future. It was discovered in an ancient shipwreck in the Mediterranean Sea and dates to approximately 250 BC. The designer/builder is not Cheap Tiffany Jewellery   known, but because of its similarity to other mechanical devices known to have been designed by Archimedes, it is probably his work.

Still others will say the abacus is the first computer. They were invented by the Chinese between 2600 BC and 300 BC is considered as the first computer ever. Abacus was used by the merchants and Clerks in China.

Here is still more input: If you mean Electronic Computer, it was a man called Alan Turing from Cambridge UK, who was drafted in to Bletchley park secret base where they worked at cracking the WWII enigma codes that the Germans used every day. The Germans changed their Enigma machines to a four digit code maker. However, Because what went on at Bletchley Park the computer made from thousands of valves was kept top secret up until http://www.silverjewelleryukshops.com/  recently. The computer, named Colossus was smashed to pieces at the end of the war. its follow up the Mark II was used by British code breakers to read encrypted German Enigma codes during World War II (notably D Day)The first computer, or "modern computer" was invented in World War II by a German engineer, Konrad Zuse in 1941 called the Z3. The Z3 was a fully digital, binary, floating point arithmetic, electromechanical relay machine programmed with punch recycled 35mm film. About the only things it lacked were conditional branches, loops, and subroutines. He invented the z1, z2, z3, z4 and other ones. The z3 was the first fully functional program controlled, electromechanical digital computer in the world. It was completed in 1941. Charles Babbage just made a mechanical computing machine."Who invented the computer?" is not a question with a simple answer. He named it the Atanasoff Berry Computer, or the ABC. It was the world's first electronic digital computer and built between 1937-42 by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry at Iowa State University. It used regenerative memory (ie., dynamic), parallel processing, binary arithmetic and split computing functions (routines) away from memory use and management.

Now, if we're talking technical knowledge and actual precursors to the PC - IBM may have accidentally spread it around when they allowed cloning of the PC architecture. But they were not the first. [This answer refers to desktop "personal" computers. [This answer refers to desktop "personal" computers. [This answer refers to desktop "personal" computers. These were far from the first computers.]The first completely electronic computer was developed in England in 1943. It was known as Colossus. It took up 1,000 Sq. ft. weighed 30 tons/60,000 pounds. It was called the Difference and Analytical Engines. The programmer for this computer was Ada Lovelace (first programmer). Links of London Watches   [Not quite correct. Babbage's Difference Engine was not the same as his Analytical Engine. But others had created machines or ideas close to it before. These were people like Pascal, Leibnitz and Turing.

The first patent for a working computer (outside the military) was the UNIVAC, created by Drs. John Mauchly and Presper Eckert in 1948. They formed the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, which was bought in 1950 (just as they were on the verge of bankruptcy) by Remington Rand. Larson. He attributed Atanasoff and Berry with the invention of the electronic digital computer. The machine was called a "difference engine" and it was intended to generate mathematical tables. This machine contained 25,000 parts and weighed 15 tons. Babbage followed this with a "difference engine 2" which, although well funded,  Thomas Sabo Charms UK was never completed. Babbage also designed a printer to go along with the computer, but this also was never completed. In 1989-1991, the London science museum made a difference engine 2 and printer from Babbage's design. If you define it as the first device for doing mathematical calculations, the answer would be the "Babbage Difference Engine", invented by Charles Babbage but never completely built. However, computers trace their lineage to 19th-century power looms which became "programmable" by use of something akin to a punch card which was used to determine which color thread would be used at any given time in the loom's weaving process. Atanasoff and his assistant Clifford Berry but they did not get the credit until about 30 years later because there patent was not complete so some one else took the idea and made one while John and Clifford were called to the military. Later there was a court trial that proved the first computer inventors, John and Clifford. In the end, John did not receive any money for his invention.