This description provides a brief overview of the invention of the first computer in 1936 by German engineer Konrad Zuse. Zuse's machine, the Z1, was the first freely programmable computer, and it laid the groundwork for the development of modern computing. The Z1 was a mechanical
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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.