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A documentary, The World's First Computer, was produced in 2012 by the Antikythera mechanism researcher and film-maker Tony Freeth. [100] In 2012, BBC Four aired The Two-Thousand-Year-Old Computer; [101] it was also aired on 3 April 2013 in the United States on NOVA, the PBS science series, under the name Ancient Computer. [102]
An analog computer or analogue computer is a type of computation machine (computer) ... In the 1950s to 1970s, digital computers based on first vacuum tubes ...
Hoelzer was the inventor and constructor of the world's first electronic analog computer. [6] Life. In October 1939, ...
The 1945 creation of the first programmable computer, ENIAC, is a good guess. Or maybe we stretch it back to Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace’s work on the analog Analytical Engine in the 1830s.
Computer Science José García Santesmases (May 2, 1907 – October 24, 1989) was a physicist and pioneer of computer science in Spain. He built the first analog computer and the first microprocessor made in Spain.
As an analog computer does not use discrete values, but rather continuous values, processes cannot be reliably repeated with exact equivalence, as they can with Turing machines. [58] The first modern analog computer was a tide-predicting machine, invented by Sir William Thomson, later Lord Kelvin, in 1872. It used a system of pulleys and wires ...
Helmut Hölzer built an analog computer to calculate and simulate [65] V-2 rocket trajectories. [66] [67] [68] 1942 Germany: Konrad Zuse developed the S1, the world's first process computer, used by Henschel to measure the surface of wings. 1943 Apr United Kingdom
If you put the world's first commercially available quantum computer and the world's foremost commercial user of computing power together, magical things will happen. At least, that was the idea ...