{"id":829,"date":"2022-11-08T08:27:25","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:27:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/eagle\/blog\/?p=829"},"modified":"2025-08-07T06:44:35","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T13:44:35","slug":"first-computer-around-century-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.autodesk.com\/products\/fusion-360\/blog\/first-computer-around-century-ago\/","title":{"rendered":"First Computer: When Was the Computer Invented?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Explore the story of the first computer, learn when the computer was invented, and trace key milestones from Babbage\u2019s 1800s machines to Colossus and ENIAC.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The First Computer: What it Was and When It Was Invented<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Some inventions come about before their time and seem to disappear into the vacuum of history overnight. Never to be seen again for ages. Like solar cells, which were first invented in 1883 by Charles Fritts<\/a>, but never gained mass popularity until over a century later. Then there\u2019s something closer to home, the computer. Despite what many think, computers weren\u2019t invented in the 1940s. In the 1940s computers did start looking more like the computers we know today. They were built off an existing foundation. Upon the shoulders of the engineers that went before them.<\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n\n