The first multi-purpose or programmable computing device was probably Charles Babbage's Difference Engine, which was begun in …………….but never completed.

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• …………….is popularly recognized in Germany as the father of the computer and his Z1, a programmable automaton built from 1936 to 1938, is said to be the world’s ‘first programmable calculating machine’.
• In…………., Babbage designed a more ambitious machine, called the Analytical Engine but unfortunately it also was only partially completed.
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• The first non-military electronic programmable computer, …………, for data processing was introduced in 1950.
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