&quot;Invented the computer&quot; is a strong assertion. I rather like Walter Isaacson&#x27;s history on &quot;The Innovators&quot;, where he talks about the parallel creations of Zuse and other inventors, to show that things are not as black-and-white; that the &quot;inventor of the computer&quot; depends on a murky definition of what a &quot;computer&quot; is, and what the final act of creating it is.<p>It&#x27;s more likely that we should attribute the invention of the computer to a collective group of individuals; some that advanced the notion of what a computer should work a little bit, some that advanced a lot, and some that had good ideas that didn&#x27;t go anywhere at the time.