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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

Jacques de Vaucanson (1709–1782) is a French engineer and inventor. He is responsible for creating the world’s first robots, the first automated loom, and building the first all-metal lathe. Early ...

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 ...

Count Alessandro Giuseppe Antonio Anastasio Volta was born was born in Como, Lombardy, duchy of Milan, on 18 February 1745. His native house is still preserved in the historic center of Como, Via ...

George Boole was a self-taught mathematician, philosopher, and logician. The majority of his professional life was spent as a mathematics professor at Queen’s College, Cork in Ireland. Boole worked in ...

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 ...

The world of computers in the 1980s feels like a time capsule compared to today’s light and thin machines. Long gone are the days of multiple components making up a single computer space, as the 1980s ...

Everywhere we turn, we experience computing, the internet, and other amazing developments of the information age. During the last several decades progress has only accelerated, creating the most ...

David has been writing for History-Computer since 2021, but has worked in digital media for well over a decade. He’s a resident of South Florida, David enjoys retro gaming, cruising, and his home ...

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (see biography of Licklider), called also J.C.R. or “Lick”, was an American scientist, an imaginative experimenter and theoretician, who left major marks not only in ...