Alan Turing is considered to be the father of modern computing, and many people believe that he invented the computer in the early 1940s. However, the reality is a little more complicated than that.

In fact, the first computers were actually created in the early 1800s, and they were called mechanical calculators. These machines were used to perform mathematical calculations, and they were powered by steam or water.

However, it was Alan Turing who first came up with the idea of a programmable computer, and he did this in 1936, long before the first computers were actually built.

Turing’s design …