who created the earliest programmed machine

The earliest programmed machine is credited to Konrad Zuse, a German engineer who created the Z3 in 1941. The Z3 is considered the world's first working electromechanical programmable, fully automatic digital computer. It used binary and could be programmed with a strip of film. Before Zuse, Charles Babbage conceptualized the first mechanical programmable computer in the early 19th century with his Analytical Engine design, but it was never completed in his lifetime. Babbage's machine used punched cards for programming, and Ada Lovelace is known as the first computer programmer for writing instructions for his Analytical Engine. However, the actual earliest programmed working machine is the Z3 by Konrad Zuse.