In April of 1860, David R. Nelson of Jackson, Ohio, patented (US patent №28006) a keyboard machine for adding numbers, one of the early calculators of that type, after the machines of White, Torchi, ...

The Scottish inventor and arithmetician, George Brown, had an affinity for all things numbers. He lived during the 1600-1700s and made significant contributions to the field of mathematics. Brown ...

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The Austrian Jew David Roth was born in 1808 in Cassovia (now Košice in Slovakia, but then it was part of Hungary and as such within the Hapsburg Monarchy). At this time, anti-Semitism was ...

On 20 April 1897, De Kerniea James Thomas Hiett (1854-1930), an inveterate calculator designer of St. Louis, obtained his first patent for a calculating machine (US580863) — a multi-column keyboard ...

The Digital Group was a Denver, Colorado-based firm created in 1974 by Robert Suding, a Doctoral student in Systems Analysis at Florida State University, a Latin instructor at a Michigan junior high ...

Three people can be credited as inventors of packet-switched networks, thus laying the foundations for the Internet: Paul Baran, Leonard Kleinrock, and Donald Davies. Little known to these men, at the ...

Dorr Eugene Felt was born in Beloit, Rock County, Wisconsin on 18 March 1862. He was the eldest of the twelve children of Eugene Kincaid (11.Apr.1838-21.Jul.1915) and Elizabeth (Morris) Felt ...

Ph.D. candidate Alan Kay envisions the concept of the DynaBook in 1968. He originally called it the KiddiComp. Kay described the it as “a personal computer for children of all ages.” His proposal ...

One of the most important companies in the history of computers, smartphones, and tablets, Apple is a name that needs […] ...