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George Phineas Gordon George Phineas Gordon was born on 21 April 1810, in Salem, New Hampshire, where his family had […]
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Christian Ludwig Gersten (Johänn) Christian Ludwig Gersten (or Gerstein) was born on 7 February 1701, in Gießen, a town in […]
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Frederick Fuller Frederick Lincoln Fuller was born on 11 April 1861, in Norwich, Conn. He was the first son of […]
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George Barnard Grant The American George Barnard Grant was born in Farmingdale, Gardiner, Maine, on 21 December 1849, as the […]
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Who was Douglas Engelbart? Douglas Engelbart was an internet and computer pioneer. A visionary, Engelbart is responsible for many of […]
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Edmund Dana Barbour (Source: Harvard University Archives, HUGFP 125.32, Box 1, Folder Barbour) Edmund Dana Barbour Edmund Dana Barbour, the youngest […]
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Innovation and invention abounded throughout the 1800s. Countless men and women of all sorts of different backgrounds and disciplines […]
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Who was Thomas Harold Flowers Thomas Harold Flowers is the technical genius who created the world’s second electronic computer (after […]
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Cathrinus Collett Cathrinus Nikolay (also spelled Nicolai or Nikolai) Arbo Collett was born on 30 March 1841, in Buskerud hovedgård […]
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He replaced a vexatious battery-powered intercom system in one of his father’s high-rise apartment buildings with an electrical system at […]
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Samuel Comfort Samuel Comfort Jr., son of George and Susan (nee Lower) Comfort, grandson of Samuel and Rebecca (Moon) Comfort, […]
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Who was Orlando Lane Castle? Orlando Lane Castle was a metaphysician, mathematician, logician, and an excellent teacher. He patented numerous […]
Not a whole lot is known of the life of the French Huguenot César Caze, sieur d’Harmonville et du […]
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Gilbert Warren Chapin Gilbert Warren Chapin was born on 1 August 1847, in Springfield, Mass., to Joel Chapin and Amelia […]
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Claude Chappe Claude Chappe was born on Christmas day (25 December) 1763, in the small French town of Brûlon, some […]
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Who Was Tito Livio Burattini? The Italian Tito Livio Burattini was a skilled architect, astronomer, mathematician, optician, mechanic, and inventor. […]
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Who Was William S. Burroughs? William S. Burroughs was an American inventor. He was born in Rochester, NY on January […]
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Howard Aiken Howard Hathaway Aiken was born in Hoboken, New Jersey, on 8 March 1900, as the only child in […]
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In this section will be examined some people who have only a theoretical, but nevertheless rather important, place in the […]
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: Charles Stanhope The name of British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope (1753-1816) (see biography of Charles Stanhope), 3rd Earl […]
: Arthur Samuel After his work for Bell Laboratories since 1928, mostly on vacuum tubes, including improvements of Radar during World […]
: Who Is Claude Shannon? Claude Shannon was an American computer scientist, engineer, and mathematician. The ideas in his published papers […]
: Charles Peirce and Allan Marquand Charles Sanders Peirce (1839–1914) was a famous American philosopher, logician, mathematician, and scientist. Peirce was […]
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: Who Was John Von Neumann? John von Neumann (1903-1957) is best known as a mathematician and one of the leading […]
: Who was William Alfred Higinbotham? William (Willy) Alfred Higinbotham was an American physicist who is credited with creating the first […]
: Who Was William Stanley Jevons? Born on September 1, 1835, William Stanley Jevons was a writer, English economist, and logician. […]
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: Alonzo Church (June 14, 1903 – August 11, 1995) was an eminent US mathematician and logician with works of […]
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The history of Microsoft Windows is one of the most important tech stories of the modern age. This operating system […]
