The first computer is a term that is used to describe a wide variety of devices, but it is typically used to refer to the first electronic computer. This is the first device that was able to be programmed to perform complex calculations and tasks. There is some debate over who created the first computer, but most historians believe that it was John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry.
John Atanasoff was born in October of 1903 in Bulgaria. He was a math professor at Iowa State University, and he began working on the first electronic computer in 1937. Clifford Berry was …