It is unknown when exactly James White designed his advanced adding machine, but in any case, it was long before the next known at the moment keyboard adders of Luigi Torchi (1834) and Jean-Baptiste ...

Professional warriors, employed by governments and wealthy entities as private soldiers, have existed in practically every society across every race and culture since the dawn of civilization. 21st ...

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Their system was the first public dial-up and went online on February 16, 1978, which enabled Ward and Randy to publish articles club members might be interested in reading. It connected 253,301 ...

Samuel Morland was an English academic, inventor, mathematician, diplomat, and spy. He lived in the 17 th century and was also proficient in several languages, including French, Greek, and Hebrew.

Early Automata: An Exact Definition Automata are moving mechanical devices constructed to assume the look and functionality of humans or any animal figures. They are built to act as self-powered, ...

The interception and decoding of German messages was a significant factor in the Allied victory, a fact kept secret until recently. The work was carried out in great secrecy at Government Code and ...

Charles Babbage is credited for designing and giving birth to the idea of the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s, Charles developed plans for an Analytical Engine. Although it wasn ...

In the history of computers, few are as memorable and as important to a company’s history as that of the Macintosh. Famously championed by Steve Jobs, the 1984 release of the Macintosh and its “1984” ...

Key Points: Alan Turing is best known for his 1936 paper “Turing Machine” which explained a theoretical device that could manipulate symbols according to rules. Turing aided in decoding encrypted ...

Wilhelm Schickard (see biography of Schickard) was born in the small south German town Herrenberg (near Tübingen) and educated in the Protestant theological seminary Tübinger Stift in Tübingen. He ...

Robert Noyce: Net Worth, Children, Family Life, and Death Net Worth Noyce was extremely wealthy from his massive business success, and at the time of his death, he was worth an estimated $3.7 billion.