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: The Ternary Calculating Machine of Thomas Fowler During the 1830s the Englishman Thomas Fowler (see biography of Thomas Fowler) became […]
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Pafnuty Chebyshev Pafnuty Lvovich Chebyshev (Пафнутий Львович Чебышёв) (1821-1894) was a prominent Russian mathematician, professor of algebra, number theory, and […]
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3 Facts About The Burroughs Adding Machine The Burroughs Adding Machine can still be purchased today from sites like eBay, […]
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Arthur Burkhardt In 1876 Curt Dietzschold (1852-1922), a German mechanical engineer from Dresden was invited to come in Glashütte (a small […]
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Otto Büttner In 1883 Karl Otto Büttner, a mechanical engineer from Dresden, Germany, patented (together with Carl Gustav Th. Heyde) […]
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Michael Bouchet Michael Bouchet (1827-1903) from Louisville, Kentucky, USA, was a holder of two USA patents for single-column adding devices […]
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Edmund Dana Barbour (Source: Harvard University Archives, HUGFP 125.32, Box 1, Folder Barbour) Edmund Barbour In 1872, a certain Edmund D. […]
While many of the greatest inventors of the 19th century are known only for what’s on their patent, the […]
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Frank Baldwin The state of calculating machine design by the 1870s can be seen in a note, appearing in an […]
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León Bollée After the first two machines, representing the class of direct-multiplying machines of Barbour and Verea, which remained relatively […]
The Conquering of the World — 19th century More than two centuries elapsed between the introduction of the first mechanical calculator […]
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: The arithmetic machine of Johann Reichold The article was written with the expert help ofMr. Stephan Weiss,www.mechrech.info Until now, the information […]
: The calculating machines of Charles Stanhope The British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (see biography of […]
: The calculating machine of Giovanni Poleni The professor of astronomy, meteorology and mathematics and Marquis of the Holy Roman […]
: Jacob-Rodrigues Pereire In the 1751 issue of the earliest scientific journal in Europe—the french Le Journal des Sçavans, was […]
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The Calculating Machine of Jacob Leupold In 1727, after the death of the prominent German scientist, instrument maker, physicist, and mathematician […]
: The Machine Arithmetique of de Lépine In 1735, a six volume set of books was published by Jean Gaffin Gallon […]
Who was Jewna Jakobson? Jewna Jakobson was a Hebrew clockmaker, mechanician, and by extension, a jeweler in the court of […]
Way back in 1730, the French Academy of Sciences — one of the leading authorities on scientific and mathematical […]
Anton Braun The German mechanic, constructor and optician Anton (Antonius) Braun (see biography of Anton Braun) (1686-1728) from Möhringen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), […]
History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical calculators, 18th century: Caze The New Arithmetical Machine of Caze The adding device of Caze, […]
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The Arithmetical Machine of Christian Ludwig Gersten Christian Ludwig Gersten (1701-1762) (see biography of Christian Ludwig Gersten) was a good […]
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Philipp Matthäus Hahn The cylindrical calculating machines of the German parson Philipp Matthäus Hahn (see biography of Philipp Matthäus Hahn) […]
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The Adding Device of Jacob Auch The German Jacob Auch (1765-1842) was a very good mechanic and clock-maker (see biography […]
J. C. R. Licklider IRE Transactions on Human Factors in Electronics, volume HFE-1, pages 4-11, March 1960 Summary Man-computer symbiosis is an expected […]
: Maturing of the Net In this section, we will present some people and events, who established the foundations of […]
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Internet conquers the world Why did the Internet become such a ubiquitous technology and conquer the world? Which are the “killer” […]
What is TCP/IP Protocol Suite: Complete Explanation Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol suite, shortly known as TCP/IP Protocol Suite , is […]
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First Computer Virus History The First Computer Virus, Creeper, was named after a Scooby-Doo cartoon show character. Creeper was written […]
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First chat program of Murray Turoff In 1971 the Ph.D. in Physics Murray Turoff (born in San Francisco, on February […]
The First E-mail Message of Ray Tomlinson No doubt, there were other people, who developed similar programs before Tomlinson. SDC’s […]
Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg — First Digital Library At the beginning of the 1970s came a time, which was […]
When on 4th of October, 1957, the USSR launched Sputnik I (a 70 kgs bleeping sphere the size of a […]
Jules Verne The great French novelist and poet Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) is best known for his adventure novels and […]
Who was Herbert Wells? Herbert Wells (also known as H.G. Wells) was an English writer and published author. He was […]
The World Wide Web of Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee used to say: “I just had to take the hypertext idea […]
Who was Paul Otlet? Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was a Belgian who was a pioneer in the field of information […]
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Who was Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was born in 1856; he was a Serbian-American engineer and scientist who produced hundreds […]
The Telectrophonoscope of Mark Twain The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark […]
George Stibitz—remote access to a computer The Relay Computers and the life of George Stibitz have already been examined in […]
Who Was Wilhelm Ostwald? Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, known throughout his life as Wilhelm Ostwald, was born on September 2nd, 1853. […]
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: What is Memex: Complete Explanation The Memex was a conceptual system created by Vannevar Bush for storing data and retrieving […]
: Claude Chappe The first widely adopted system for transmitting messages overland and the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial […]
: Who was Murray Leinster Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, […]
Emanuel Goldberg In the 1920s the German scientist Emanuel Goldberg (see the biography of Emanuel Goldberg) of Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, […]
: Robert Hooke (1635-1703), a modern portrait from Rita Greer, a history artist (there are no surviving images of Robert […]
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The History of YouTube: What to Know YouTube (an American online video sharing platform owned by Google) was launched on […]
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) In 1939 the famous Argentine writer and […]
Digg of Kevin Rose Kevin Rose is an American Internet Entrepreneur, known for his several Internet start-ups. He is the co-founder […]
The History of eBay: What to Know On September 4th, 1995, the 28-year-old software developer, entrepreneur, and founder Pierre Omidyar […]
