It's a piece of Philadelphia history that powered the future. The world's first electronic computer was born at the ...

Charles Babbage is credited for designing and giving birth to the idea of the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s, Charles developed plans for an Analytical Engine. Although it wasn ...

WEST CHESTER, PA — Eighty years after the unveiling of the world’s first electronic, general-purpose programmable digital ...

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1941: Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry, design the first digital electronic computer in the U.S., called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC). This marks the first time a computer is ...