The First Computer

by Read Listen Learn · Science · Pre-Intermediate

We usually think of the computer as a very modern invention: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, maybe Alan Turing. However, this article takes us back two hundred years to the birth of the first calculating machine and tells the story of two very different people, Charles Babbage and Ada Lovelace and the parts they played in making the first computing machine. (870 words)

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