The History Of Computers

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adding and shifting (Guides 45).
Perhaps the first actual computer was made by Charles Babbage. He
explains himself rather well with the following quote:
"One evening I was sitting in the rooms of the Analytical Society at
Cambridge with a table full of logarithms lying open before me. Another member
coming into the room, and seeing me half asleep called out, ‘Well Babbage, what
are you dreaming about?', to which I replied, ‘I am thinking that all these
tables might be calculated by machinery'"(Evans 41).
"The first general purpose computer was invented in 1871 by Charles
Babbage, just before he died"(Evans 41). It was still a prototype of course,
but it was a beginning.
Around this time, there was little or no interest in the development of
computers. People feared, due to the lack of their knowledge, that computers
would take over everything and run their lives (Buchsbaum 9).
If only these 18th century Americans, who were ignorant to the necessity
of computers, would ...

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