Correct and incorrect,

If Babbage was first it would have qualified, but he was second (but did invent a different type of computer) Also in the Babbage case, he didn't even build it (although an item does not have to be built to be an invention, ask Divinci) Where the ATM in NewYork was built, and put into service as a working device, just ahead of it's time for our market.


FROM WIKIPEDIA
However, none of those devices fit the modern definition of a computer because they could not be programmed. In 1801, Joseph Marie Jacquard made an improvement to the textile loom that used a series of punched paper cards as a template to allow his loom to weave intricate patterns automatically. The resulting Jacquard loom was an important step in the development of computers because the use of punched cards to define woven patterns can be viewed as an early, albeit limited, form of programmability.

In 1837, Charles Babbage was the first to conceptualize and design a fully programmable mechanical computer that he called "The Analytical Engine".[2] Due to limited finance, and an inability to resist tinkering with the design, Babbage never actually built his Analytical Engine.

Large-scale automated data processing of punched cards was performed for the US Census in 1890 by tabulating machines designed by Herman Hollerith and manufactured by the Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation, which later became IBM. By the end of the 19th century a number of technologies that would later prove useful in the realization of practical computers had begun to appear: the punched card, boolean algebra, the vacuum tube (thermionic valve) and the teleprinter.



>>>And you invented inventing
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>>>Actually the ATM seem to be a UK invention
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>>>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automatic_teller_machine
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>>I don't understand, the link you provided says this:
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>>A mechanical cash dispenser, arguably an ATM, was developed and built by Luther George Simjian and installed 1939 in New York by the City Bank of New York, but removed after 6 months due to the lack of customer acceptance
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>That, to some extent, is like saying "Babbage arguably invented a computer in his diffewrence engine"