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3 Facts about Winter’s Keyboard Adder Winter’s Keyboard Adder History On April 12, 1859, Caroline Winter presented her Keyboard, which was called […]
Long before the hand-held calculators, there was the millionaire calculator machine—a large, clunky, and expensive mechanical machine that performed direct […]
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: Victor Schilt The calculating machine of the Swiss clockmaker Victor (or Viktor) Schilt (1822-1880) was exhibited in 1851 at […]
Saxonia Calculating Machine History Saxonia was among the first mechanical calculators invented by three Mechanics working in the factory of […]
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Du Bois D. Parmelee In 1850 Du Bois (Dubois) D. Parmelee from New Paltz, state of New York, received the […]
About the Tate-Layton Machine Tate-Layton Machine History The first English stepped drum machine (Thomas de Colmar-type arithmometer) was devised in […]
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Four Facts About Tito Gonnella’s Adding Machines Tito Gonnella’s Adding Machines History The Italian scientist and inventor Tito Filippo Gonnella (1794–1867), professor […]
Four Facts About Comptometer Comptometer: History In 1884, a young machinist named Dorr Eugene Felt at Ostrander and Huke machine workshop in Chicago observed […]
4 Facts about the Arithmometer of Thomas de Colmar Arithmometer History During his lengthy stay with the armies of Marchall Soult, where […]
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3 Facts About The Burroughs Adding Machine Burroughs Adding Machine History The Burroughs Adding Machine was invented by one William Seward […]
The Conquering of the World — 19th century More than two centuries elapsed between introducing the first mechanical calculator (Schickard’s Rechenuhr […]
Way back in 1730, the French Academy of Sciences — one of the leading authorities on scientific and mathematical […]
The New Arithmetical Machine of Caze The adding device of Caze, created sometime around 1696, could be considered one of […]
First Computer Virus History The First Computer Virus, Creeper, was named after a Scooby-Doo cartoon show character. Creeper was written […]
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 […]
The NLS system of Douglas Engelbart The name of the prominent American inventor and computer pioneer Douglas Carl Engelbart (biography […]
3 Facts about Leonardo Torres’s Chess Machine Leonardo Torres’s Chess Machine History In the beginning of 1910, Leonardo Torres y Quevedo commenced […]
6 Facts about the Steam Man Steam Man History Zadoc Dederick, born August 8, 1849, worked for the patent attorney and was […]
: Artificial Intelligence has come a long way and achieved significant milestones over the years. The history of AI and […]
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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 […]
Electric Dog of Hammond and Miessner History Seleno, the Electric Dog, was invented in 1912 and was considered the ancestor […]
8 Facts about Elektro of Westinghouse Elektro of Westinghouse History Elektro, not electro, is a nickname given to a robot that […]
During the second half of the 19th and first half of the 20th century, a large number of relatively inexpensive […]