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Key Points Frank Baldwin The state of calculating machine design by the 1870s can be seen in a note, appearing in an […]
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 […]
: The calculating machines of Charles Stanhope The British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (see biography of […]
: 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 […]
Who was Jewna Jakobson? Jewna Jakobson was a Hebrew clockmaker, mechanician, and by extension, a jeweler in the court 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 […]
The Arithmetical Machine of Christian Ludwig Gersten Christian Ludwig Gersten (1701-1762) (see biography of Christian Ludwig Gersten) was a good […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jules Verne The great French novelist and poet Jules Gabriel Verne (1828–1905) is best known for his adventure novels and […]
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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 […]
Who was Paul Otlet? Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet was a Belgian who was a pioneer in the field of information […]
Who Was Wilhelm Ostwald? Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, known throughout his life as Wilhelm Ostwald, was born on September 2nd, 1853. […]
Emanuel Goldberg In the 1920s the German scientist Emanuel Goldberg (see the biography of Emanuel Goldberg) of Zeiss Ikon, Dresden, […]
: Who was Murray Leinster Murray Leinster was the pen name of William Fitzgerald Jenkins, an American writer of genre fiction, […]
: Claude Chappe The first widely adopted system for transmitting messages overland and the first practical telecommunications system of the industrial […]
: Robert Hooke (1635-1703), a modern portrait from Rita Greer, a history artist (there are no surviving images of Robert […]
Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August 1899 – 14 June 1986) In 1939 the famous Argentine writer and […]
