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Key Points Otto Büttner In 1883 Karl Otto Büttner, a mechanical engineer from Dresden, Germany, patented (together with Carl Gustav Th. Heyde) […]
While many of the greatest inventors of the 19th century are known only for what’s on their patent, the […]
Frank Baldwin The state of calculating machine design by the 1870s can be seen in a note, appearing in an […]
Edmund Dana Barbour (Source: Harvard University Archives, HUGFP 125.32, Box 1, Folder Barbour) Edmund Barbour In 1872, a certain Edmund D. […]
Michael Bouchet Michael Bouchet (1827-1903) from Louisville, Kentucky, USA, was a holder of two USA patents for single-column adding devices […]
León Bollée After the first two machines, representing the class of direct-multiplying machines of Barbour and Verea, which remained relatively […]
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: The arithmetic machine of Johann Reichold The article was written with the expert help ofMr. Stephan Weiss,www.mechrech.info Until now, the information […]
: Jacob-Rodrigues Pereire In the 1751 issue of the earliest scientific journal in Europe—the french Le Journal des Sçavans, was […]
: The calculating machine of Giovanni Poleni The professor of astronomy, meteorology and mathematics and Marquis of the Holy Roman […]
: The calculating machines of Charles Stanhope The British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (see biography of […]
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: The Machine Arithmetique of de Lépine In 1735, a six volume set of books was published by Jean Gaffin Gallon […]
The Calculating Machine of Jacob Leupold In 1727, after the death of the prominent German scientist, instrument maker, physicist, and mathematician […]
Who was Jewna Jakobson? Jewna Jakobson was a Hebrew clockmaker, mechanician, and by extension, a jeweler in the court of […]
Philipp Matthäus Hahn The cylindrical calculating machines of the German parson Philipp Matthäus Hahn (see biography of Philipp Matthäus Hahn) […]
The Adding Device of Jacob Auch The German Jacob Auch (1765-1842) was a very good mechanic and clock-maker (see biography […]
The Arithmetical Machine of Christian Ludwig Gersten Christian Ludwig Gersten (1701-1762) (see biography of Christian Ludwig Gersten) was a good […]
Jules Verne The great French novelist and poet Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) is best known for his adventure novels and […]
Michael Hart and Project Gutenberg — First Digital Library At the beginning of the 1970s came a time, which was […]
The World Wide Web of Tim Berners-Lee Tim Berners-Lee used to say: “I just had to take the hypertext idea […]
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 Wilhelm Ostwald? Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, known throughout his life as Wilhelm Ostwald, was born on September 2nd, 1853. […]
Who was Nikola Tesla Nikola Tesla was born in 1856; he was a Serbian-American engineer and scientist who produced hundreds […]
The Telectrophonoscope of Mark Twain The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark […]
: Claude Chappe The first widely adopted system for transmitting messages overland and the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial […]
