Charles Babbage lost his knack for talking money out of the British government, which wanted a machine that could generate math tables, and so the computer revolution didn't begin in England in 1822. (Did you notice the 8 in that date?). Babbage designed an amazing computer, it just did not get built until recently, as replica mechanical computers have since been constructed using Babbage's original, complex blueprints. They work perfectly.
Being programmable and performing 357 multiplication operations per second, the U.S. Army's Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer (ENIAC) hinted at what a computer could do when it was unveiled in 1946. However, it weighed 30 tons, used 17,478 vacuum tubes, consumed 150 kilowatts, and programming involved patch cables and switches.Read More..
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