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Key Points The Telectrophonoscope of Mark Twain The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark […]
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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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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 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 […]
: Claude Chappe The first widely adopted system for transmitting messages overland and the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial […]
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) In 1939 the famous Argentine writer and […]
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Who Is Ted Nelson? Born in 1937, Theodor Holm Nelson is an American philosopher, computer scientist, and sociologist. He specializes […]
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Who Was Larry Roberts? Larry (Lawrence) Roberts is known as the father of computer vision for his contributions to the […]
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Leonard Kleinrock Three people can be credited as inventors of packet-switched networks, thus laying the foundations for the Internet: Leonard […]
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The NLS system of Douglas Engelbart The name of the prominent American inventor and computer pioneer Douglas Carl Engelbart (biography […]
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Joseph Licklider Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (see biography of Licklider), called also J.C.R. or “Lick”, was an American scientist, an […]
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Donald Davies Three people can be credited as inventors of packet-switched networks, thus laying the foundations for the Internet: Paul […]
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Charles Goldfarb — the Godfather of Markup Languages The idea of markup languages was apparently first publicly presented by the […]
François Willème Naturally, the first technology for producing kind of 3D models by mechanical means, which might be considered to […]
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Why is the computer such an important machine? Can you answer my question? If you are a child, you can say […]
Who Was Paul Baran? Born on April 29, 1926, Paul Baran was an American inventor, economist, and electrical engineer who, […]
: Who was Jacques de Vaucanson? Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782) is a French engineer and inventor. He is responsible for creating […]
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: Alessandro Volta is known for discovering methane gas (1776) and inventing the world’s first electric battery. Napoleon Bonaparte gave Volta […]
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: Juanelo Turriano The first android in the Western World, a completely mechanical figure that simulated a living human or animal, […]
: Villard de Honnecourt The French Villard de Honnecourt is an enigmatic and power-minded medieval person, considered by some people as […]
: Who Was Salomon de Caus? Born in 1576, Salomon de Caus was a French scientist and engineer with various amazing […]
