Karel Capek and the Robot (Complete History) Updated: July 25, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment The creators of robot word, Karel Čapek (left), and his brother Josef Čapek (right) Karel Capek The robot word was conceived in […]
Microsoft Windows Guide: History, Origin, and More Updated: July 21, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment 5 Facts About Microsoft Windows The original Windows operating system was designed to replace MS-DOS, but technically ran on top of […]
Bluetooth vs. Infrared: What’s the Difference? Updated: August 3, 2023 by Luxia Le | Leave a Comment Bluetooth vs. Infrared: 5 Must-Know Facts Bluetooth uses radio waves to transmit data, while infrared uses infrared light. Infrared sensors require a […] TaggedBluetoothVS
The Largest Cloud Services Companies in the World, and What They Do Updated: April 16, 2024 by Elizabeth Milne | Leave a Comment Up Next… Interested in more articles on computing? Click on the links below: Amazon Web Services (AWS), controlled 33% of the total […] TaggedComputing
The Complete History of the ThinkPad: Launch, Models, Pricing, and More Updated: November 13, 2023 by Tyler Von Harz | Leave a Comment There is perhaps no other laptop with as fascinating a history as the ThinkPad. Since the first models were produced […] TaggedLaptopsProduct Review
Ivan Sutherland – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: April 16, 2024 by Hannah Ward | Leave a Comment Ivan Sutherland is an American engineer and scientist who invented various new types of technology, including the Sketchpad, the Sword […]
Karel Čapek – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment : Karel Čapek delved into science fiction with several novels and plays including War with the Newts, published in 1936. […]
Kenbak-1 Explained – Everything You Need To Know Updated: July 31, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment 5 Facts About Kenbak-1 The Kenbak-1 computer has a speed of approximately 1Mhz. It is famously regarded as the world’s first stored-program […]
The History of the Modern CPU Updated: October 13, 2023 by David Beren | Leave a Comment The modern CPU or Central Processing Unit is basically the “brain” of a computer. It is responsible for processing all […]
The 10 Oldest Bibles Known to Man Updated: November 16, 2023 by Liam Frady | Leave a Comment What is the oldest Bible in the world? You might think of some dusty old tome secreted away in a […] TaggedOldest
The 100 Most Famous People in History Based on Irrefutable Data Updated: November 12, 2023 by Nate Williams | 5 Comments on The 100 Most Famous People in History Based on Irrefutable Data Looking back at the entire history of the world is hardly an easy feat. How could a person possibly round […] TaggedPeople
Johann Reichold Updated: July 26, 2023 by Heather | Leave a Comment : Reichold was a expert at woodworking, and he carved and constructed wooden clocks and other things including an arithmetic […]
Centigraph Adding Machine Explained – Everything You Need To Know Updated: July 24, 2023 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment Arthur E. Shattuck invented the Centigraph Adding Machine in 1880 and filed for a patent that same year. Humans are […]
Fawcett Plumb Updated: April 16, 2024 by History Computer Staff | Leave a Comment Fawcett Plumb On 17 June 1881, Fawcett Plumb (1834-1919), a businessman, politician, and prolific inventor from Streator, Illinois, (see the biography […]
South-Pointing Chariot Explained – Everything You Need To Know Updated: July 24, 2023 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment While many of our most essential and frequently used devices were invented in the past couple of centuries and are […]
Johann Helfrich von Muller – Biography, History and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Dana Mayor | Leave a Comment Johann Helfrich von Muller Johann Helfrich von Müller was born in Cleve (a town in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia in […]
Friedrich von Knaus – Biography, History and Inventions Updated: July 25, 2023 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment Friedrich von Knauss Friedrich von Knaus(s) (1724-1789), was a German watchmaker, mechanician and inventor, who built clockwork mechanisms which could, in […]
Jabez Burns – Biography, History and Inventions Updated: April 20, 2024 by Lex Basu | Leave a Comment Jabez Burns Early Life Jabez Burns was born in London on 12 February, 1826, as second child in the family of William […]
James Alvan Macauley – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: December 6, 2022 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment Who was James Alvan Macualey? Wheeling, West Virginia, was the place of James Alvan Macauley’s birth on June 19, 1872. James […]
Winter and Crary — Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 25, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment During the age of invention, some ideas were simply too big and too great to be contained by one mind. […]
Newman Marshman – Complete Biography, History and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Dana Mayor | Leave a Comment Newman Russel Marshman and his Orguinette in 1880. Who Was Newman Marshman? Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As […]
David Roth Updated: July 27, 2023 by Heather | Leave a Comment The Machines of David Roth The pin-wheel mechanism, known from the sketch of Leibniz and machines of Poleni (1709) and Braun […]
Horace Hicks – Biography, History and Inventions Updated: April 16, 2024 by History Computer Staff | Leave a Comment Horace Hicks On 6 November 1894, Horace David Hicks, an employee of Brown’s Lumber Company, Whitefield, New Hampshire, USA, got a […]
Fortran Programming Language: History, Origin, and More Updated: July 31, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment 4 Facts About Fortran The name Fortran derives from the name Formula Translation. Initially, the spelling of the name was in all-uppercase […]
Winter’s Keyboard Adder — Everything You Need to Know Updated: July 21, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment 3 Facts about Winter’s Keyboard Adder Winter’s Keyboard Adder is the first, and so far the only, mechanical calculator that […]
George Dudley Updated: July 24, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment George Dudley was an American inventor who was known for inventing adding and printing machines. These revolutionary machines could […]
Discover the 10 Oldest Movies Ever Made Updated: October 12, 2023 by Nate Williams | Leave a Comment What’s the oldest movie you’ve ever seen? The Wizard of Oz or Gone with the Wind from 1939? Maybe Frankenstein […] TaggedMovies
Charles Peirce and Allan Marquand – first electrical logical machine Updated: July 28, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment Charles Peirce Allan Marquand : Charles Sanders Peirce made major contributions to logic, which he saw logic as the formal branch of […]
Wilhelm Ostwald – Complete Biography, History and Inventions Updated: April 16, 2024 by History Computer Staff | Leave a Comment Wilhelm Ostwald©Nicola Perscheid, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons – License Who Was Wilhelm Ostwald? Friedrich Wilhelm Ostwald, known throughout his life as […]
Marshall Cram Updated: July 24, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment In the 1800s, machines called single adders were used. Marshall Cram made one such machine, although it could only add […]
Tobias Lutke: Net Worth, Biography, Family, and More Updated: August 11, 2023 by Nate Williams | Leave a Comment While not as famous as Steve Jobs, Mark Zuckerberg, and Jeff Bezos, Tobias Lutke is nevertheless a significant and growing […]
Harry Humfrey Rumble Updated: July 25, 2023 by Heather | Leave a Comment A Portrait of Harry Humfrey Rumble Harry Humfrey Rumble On 15 September, 1890, the young architect and civil engineer Harry Humfrey Rumble […]
John Ballou Newbrough – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Dana Mayor | Leave a Comment John Ballou Newbrough Who Was John Ballou Newbrough? John Ballou Newbrough is a 33rd degree Mason, vegetarian, and an avid student of […]
Printed Circuit Board Explained — Everything You Need To Know Updated: July 28, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment Paul Eisler invented the printed circuit board in 1936. Four Facts about the Printed Circuit Board The first circuit board […]
Borland and Hoffmann Adding Machine Updated: July 24, 2023 by Heather | Leave a Comment According to their patent, Borland and Hoffmann designed their adding machine to allow users to “add a column of figures […]
Who Was Jacob Leupold? Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Dana Mayor | Leave a Comment Some people learn to develop skills as an inventor, a scientist, a mathematician, or a mechanical engineer over years of […]
Burridge and Marshman & the Typewriter: Complete History Updated: July 24, 2023 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment Burridge and Marshman were initially known simply as typewriter inventors. However, together they invented an adding machine, adding and recording […]
François Willème and the Photosculpture (Complete History) Updated: July 26, 2023 by Dana Mayor | Leave a Comment François Willème Naturally, the first technology for producing kind of 3D models by mechanical means, which might be considered to be […]
Leonardo Torres’s Calculating Machine Explained: Everything You Need to Know Updated: July 22, 2023 by Rebecca Bales | Leave a Comment Invented by Leonardo Torres in 1920, the Torres calculating machine is a machine which solves essential addition, subtraction, multiplication, and […]
Pehr-Georg and Edvard Scheutz’s Difference Engine Explained — Everything You Need To Know Updated: July 24, 2023 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment Charles Babbage is widely recognized for inventing the first mechanical computer, the Difference Engine, in 1821. However, he never managed […]
Henri Maillardet – Biography, History and Inventions Updated: April 16, 2024 by History Computer Staff | Leave a Comment Henri Maillardet Around 1800, the Swiss mechanic and clockmaker Henri Maillardet (1745-1830), who worked then in London, created an extraordinary automaton, […]
Melvin Lovell – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 25, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment Who Was Melvin Lovell? Born in Pennsylvania in August 1844, Melvin Lovell was a successful businessman and woodenware manufacturer who also […]
Ferdinand Hebentanz Updated: April 16, 2024 by History Computer Staff | Leave a Comment History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, Ferdinand Hebentanz Ferdinand Hebentanz On 23 April 1873, Ferdinand Hebentanz, a watchmaker from Budapest, […]
Friedrich Arzberger — Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 24, 2023 by Heather | Leave a Comment While Friedrich Arzberger worked in mining and as a professor, he has a footnote in history for having created one […]
Jehu Hatfield – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 24, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment Jehu Hatfield was an inventor during the 19th century. While he was working with spittoons, pottery, and Lucifer matches, his […]
Athanasius Kircher – Biography, History and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Dana Mayor | Leave a Comment Athanasius Kircher Athanasius Kircher The Jesuit priest Athanasius Kircher was an authentic scientific superstar in his time, honoured with the title “master […]
Jorge Luis Borges – Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: April 16, 2024 by History Computer Staff | Leave a Comment Jorge Luis Borges – Biography, History, and Inventions Jorge Luis Borges A Z Animals Contributors Jorge Francisco Isidoro Luis Borges Acevedo (24 August […]
Orlando Lane Castle – Complete Biography, History, and Inventions Updated: July 31, 2023 by Lex Basu | Leave a Comment Who was Orlando Lane Castle? Orlando Lane Castle was a metaphysician, mathematician, logician, and an excellent teacher. He patented numerous inventions, […]
De Kerniea James Thomas Hiett Updated: July 24, 2023 by Abby | Leave a Comment History of Computers and Computing, Calculating tools, Gadgets, De Kerniea James Thomas Hiett : In 1897, De Kerniea James Thomas Hiett […]
Astrolabe Updated: July 24, 2023 by Lisha Pace | Leave a Comment While modern humans tend to think of science in terms of innovations made during the past 100 to 200 years, […]