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Who created the idea of a general purpose computing machine.

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Charles Babbage

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1822 - Charles Babbage (1792-1871) designed his first mechanical computer, the original prototype for the Difference Engine. Babbage invented two machines, the Analytical Engine (a general purpose mathematical device) and the Difference Engine.

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