Charles Babbage, an English mechanical engineer and polymath, originated the idea of a programmable computer. Considered the "father in the computer",[seventeen] he conceptualized and invented the initial mechanical computer during the early 19th century. Following engaged on his groundbreaking variance engine, created to assist in navigational calculations, in 1833 https://maps.app.goo.gl/7RYc47qBJnvzuRso7