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Thomas Hobbes Who was Thomas Hobbes? Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one […]
Oliver Evans©William G. Jackman, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – License Who Was Oliver Evans? Oliver Evans was an American inventor, engineer, […]
Ctesibius Ctesibius (Greek Κτησίβιος) of Alexandria, Egypt, was a Greek inventor and mathematician, the first great figure of the ancient engineering […]
The creators of robot word, Karel Čapek (left), and his brother Josef Čapek (right) Karel Capek The robot word was conceived in […]
Basile Bouchon The first industrial application of a (semi)-automated machine was made in the early eighteenth century by a modest textile […]
Emile Baudot The first widely adopted device to encode letters, numbers, and symbols as uniform-length binary sequences was the multiplexed printing […]
Samuel Butler was an English novelist who is best known for his novels Erewhon and The Way of All Flesh. Although […]
L. Frank Baum – Biography, History and Inventions L Frank Baum In 1901 the famous American author Lyman Frank Baum (1856–1919) published […]
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Ezra Edgar Witter Ezra Edgar Witter was a holder of many (at least 15) US and Canadian patents between 1888 and […]
History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Elizur Wright Elizur Wright In 1860s, Elizur Wright (see biography of Elizur Wright), an […]
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History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Jacot des Combes Eugène Jacot des Combes Yet another Parisian watchmaker (after Ernest-Narcisse Lobbé) […]
Who was Samuel Young? Samuel Young was a man who lived in the mid-1850s and started his life working as a […]
Frederick Parsons Warren around 1868 (© Michigan State University) Calculating Engine of Frederick Warren In 1864, Frederick Warren, a young man of […]
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History of Computers and Computing, Mechanical calculators, 19th century, Charles Weiss : Charles W. Weiss, an inventor from Brooklyn, New York, […]
During the age of invention, some ideas were simply too big and too great to be contained by one mind. […]
About Charles Webb Charles Henry Webb was an American poet, journalist, and inventor. The American poet, author, journalist and inventor Charles Henry […]
The Calculators of Louis Troncet After the slide adders of Claude Perrault, Caze and Heinrich Kummer, in 1889 the Frenchman Louis-J. […]
3 Facts about Tachylemme of Chambon The Tachylemme was a specialized calculator, showing the daily interest on sums of money at […]
: Lawrence Swem was an American inventor who held over 6 patents for various devices, including a keyboard adder similar […]
History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Elmore Taylor : Elmore Taylor, and inventor originally from Franklin Indiana, held patents […]
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Thomas Strode was quite a multifaceted person. He spent his days working as a shopkeeper and farmer in the town […]
Born in southeast England, Leonard Stowe set off to New Zealand when he was just 21 years old. There, he […]
Archibald M. Stephenson invented the an adding machine. Stephenson’s Adding Machine Archibald M. Stephenson (1844-1913) of Manteno, Illinois, took out a […]
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History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Albert Stettner Albert Stettner Albert Stettner Jr., a mechanic from Berlin, Prussia, was a […]