The first general purpose electronic computer in the world was ______________.
The first general purpose electronic computer in the world was ENIAC
ENIAC was completed in 1945 and first put to work for practical purposes at the end of that year. ENIAC was formally dedicated at the University of Pennsylvania on February 15, 1946 and was heralded as a "Giant Brain" by the press.
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the world's first general-purpose computer. ENIAC was designed and built for the United States Army to calculate artillery firing tables.
In 1942, physicist John Mauchly proposed an all-electronic calculating machine. ... The result was ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), built between 1943 and 1945—the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts.