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: Leonardo da Vinci’s Automata: History Leonardo da Vinci was a painter, engineer, sculptor, scientist, and architect who embodied the High […]
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: Gottfried Leibniz The great German polymath Gottfried Leibniz (see biography of Leibniz) was one of the first men (after Ramon […]
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: Who Was Ramon Llull? Ramon Llull (pronunciation: rəˈmoɲ ˈʎuʎ) is a polymath who was best known for his work as […]
: Friedrich von Knauss Friedrich von Knaus(s) (1724-1789), was a German watchmaker, mechanician, and inventor, who built clockwork mechanisms that could, […]
: Athanasius Kircher The prominent German Jesuit polymath Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) (see biography of Athanasius Kircher) was a famous 17th-century scholar, […]
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Who Was Joseph Marie Jacquard? Joseph Marie Charles Jacquard was a French weaver who played an important role in the […]
: Who was Pierre Jaquet-Droz Pierre Jaquet-Droz was a Swiss born watchmaker and mechanical genius. His watches and mechanical inventions combined […]
: Friedrich Kaufmann The Kaufmann family from Dresden (see the lower image), Saxony (Johann Gottfried Kaufmann (1751-1818), his son Johann Friedrich […]
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Who Was Wolfgang von Kempelen? Wolfgang von Kempelen is a man revered for his inventions that created hot debate in […]
Euphonia The German Joseph Faber, born around 1800 in Freiburg Breisgau, near Schwarzwald, came at a young age to Vienna, […]
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Giovanni Fontana More than half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript […]
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Who Was Heron (Hero) of Alexandria? The Greek mathematician and engineer Hero of Alexandria was active in his native city […]
Who Was Oliver Evans? Oliver Evans was an American inventor, engineer, businessman, and pioneer in the field of automation. He has […]
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Who was Thomas Hobbes? Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one […]
8 Facts about Elektro of Westinghouse Elektro of Westinghouse History Elektro, not electro, is a nickname given to a robot that […]
What is Early Automaton: Complete Explanation The word automat is the Latinization of the Greek word αὐτόματον, which means acting of one’s own will. […]
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Karel Capek The robot word was conceived at the beginning of 1920 by the Czech writer and playwright Karel Čapek […]
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Ctesibius Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician, the first great figure of the ancient […]
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Electric Dog of Hammond and Miessner History Seleno, the Electric Dog, was invented in 1912 and was considered the ancestor […]
Basile Bouchon The first industrial application of a semi-automated machine was made in the early eighteenth century by a modest […]
Emile Baudot The first widely adopted device to encode letters, numbers, and symbols as uniform-length binary sequences was the multiplexed […]
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L Frank Baum In 1901 the famous American author Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) published a 245-page illustrated novel, The Master […]
Samuel Butler was an English novelist who is best known for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. […]
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What are Asimov’s Laws of Robotics: Complete Explanation Isaac Asimov, in his fiction science story named, ‘Runaround’ published introduced the […]
The Arabic Automata After the fall of the Western Roman Empire at the end of the 5th century, the western […]
What are Logarithms: Complete Explanation A logarithm is the power which a certain number is raised to get another number. […]
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During the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, a large number of relatively inexpensive […]
5 Facts About the Abacus Abacus History As the most ancient calculator known, the origin and inventor of the abacus is […]
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History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools In this section will be examined some calculating tools, used by mankind in the […]
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Eugène Jacot des Combes Yet another Parisian watchmaker (after Ernest-Narcisse Lobbé) invented an early keyboard adder in the 1850s — Eugène […]
Who was Samuel Young? Samuel Young was a man who lived in the mid-1850s and started his life working as […]
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Ezra Edgar Witter Ezra Edgar Witter was a holder of many (at least 15) US and Canadian patents between 1888 […]
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Facts about Napier’s Bones Napier’s Bones History Napier’s Bones is a manual calculating device using strips of ivory or other types […]
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Elizur Wright In the 1860s, Elizur Wright (see the biography of Elizur Wright), an American mathematician and abolitionist, sometimes described […]
About Charles Webb The American poet, author, journalist, and inventor Charles Henry Webb was a fascinating person. Born on January […]
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: Charles Weiss On August 31, 1886, Charles W. Weiss of Brooklyn, New York, received a patent (U.S. patent №348437) for […]
Frederick Parsons Warren around 1868 (© Michigan State University) Calculating Engine of Frederick Warren In 1864, Frederick Warren, a young man […]
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: The Calculators of Louis Troncet After the slide adders of Claude Perrault, Caze, and Heinrich Kummer, in 1889 the Frenchman […]
During the age of invention, some ideas were simply too big and too great to be contained by one […]
: Lawrence Swem On 8 June 1886, Lawrence W. Swem, a jeweler of West Liberty, Muscatine, Iowa, patented a keyboard adder […]
3 Facts about Tachylemme of Chambon Tachylemme of Chambon History The Tachylemme calculator of the Parisian Casimir-Louis Chambon was patented in 1876 […]
: Elmore Taylor In 1874, Elmore W. Taylor of Franklin, Indiana, patented a circular adding machine (US patent 155772), assigning one-half […]
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: Thomas Strode was quite a multifaceted person. He spent his days working as a shopkeeper and farmer in […]
: Spalding Adding Machine Cyrus G. Spalding of Boston, Massachusetts, was a holder of two US patents for adding machines: […]
: Born in southeast England, Leonard Stowe set off to New Zealand when he was just 21 years old. […]
: Stephenson’s Adding Machine Archibald M. Stephenson (1844-1913) of Manteno, Illinois, took out a US patent №137167 for Adding Machine […]
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: Albert Stettner Albert Stettner Jr., a mechanic from Berlin, Prussia, was a holder of 2 German (DE21236 and DE23098 […]
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: David Marion Rush David Marion Rush of Louisburg, Missouri, applied for a patent for ten-key non-printing manually operated adding […]
: Who Was Dr. Walter Snelling? Born on December 13, 1880, Dr. Walter Snelling was a chemist and a significant […]
: Jacob Schnarrenberger Jacob H. Schnarrenberger of Springfield and Greenfield, Ohio, was a holder of quite a few (at least […]
