Multiple choice general knowledge science & technology

Charles Babbage invented

  1. ENIAC

  2. Difference engine

  3. Electronic computer

  4. Punched card
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Explanation

Charles Babbage designed the Difference Engine in the 1820s-1840s as a mechanical calculator for computing polynomial functions. ENIAC was built in the 1940s, long after Babbage's time. The first electronic computer is generally considered to be ENIAC or Colossus, and punched cards were developed by Herman Hollerith.

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