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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 ...

In 1886 the professor of mathematics at the University of Würzburg, Germany, Eduard Selling (1834-1920) (see biography of Selling) received a patent for a calculating machine with very interesting ...

Edmund Dana Barbour, the youngest of six children of Oliver Barbour and Mary Hutchinson, was born on 11 August 1841, at Henchman Lane, in the North End of Boston. Edmund’s father, Oliver H. Barbour ...

On March 31st, 1882 Eduard Hammenstede of Cologne, Germany, received German patent No. 20443 on Schnell-Addirmaschine (Quick Adding Machine). The device was a column adder with a large numeral drum ...

Eduard Selling was born on November 5, 1834, in Ansbach, Bavaria, Germany. Selling studied mathematics at Georg-August-Universität in Göttingen and Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München, where he ...

The electromechanical relay, used as a constructive part of some early calculators and computers (see computers of Zuse, Aiken, and Stibitz), was invented in 1835 by the brilliant US scientist Joseph ...

Abby has a B.A. in English, and has written short and long fiction, with a published novel, lyrics and poetry. She's also done interviews and pieces on the folk music industry. Besides writing and ...

Elizur Wright III (his father and grandfather were also named Elizur Wright) was born on 12 February 1804, in South Canaan, Litchfield County, Connecticut, USA. He was the first child of Elizur Wright ...

In the 1860s, Elizur Wright (see the biography of Elizur Wright), an American mathematician and abolitionist, sometimes described as the father of life insurance in the United States, invented his ...

In the 1920s the German scientist Emanuel Goldberg of Zeiss Ikon (see the Knowledge Machine of Emanuel Goldberg), Dresden, pioneered electronic retrieval technology and library automation. Emanuel ...