As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time […] ...

The Burroughs Adding Machine can still be purchased today from sites like eBay, usually for between $70 and $300, or more depending on the condition of the machine. At one point the Burroughs Adding ...

Cathrinus Nikolay (also spelled Nicolai or Nikolai) Arbo Collett was born on 30 March 1841, in Buskerud hovedgård — the manor of his family near Åmot in Modum municipality, Norway. He was the first ...

Charles Felton Pidgin was born on 11 November 1844, in a house in Felton Place at Boston Highlands, Roxbury, Massachusetts, to Mary Elizabeth (Felton) Pidgin (born 1823) and Benjamin Gordon Pidgin ...

The idea of markup languages was apparently first publicly presented by the engineer William W. Tunnicliffe (1922-1996) from Washington, D.C. In September of 1967, during a meeting at the Canadian ...

On August 31, 1886, Charles W. Weiss of Brooklyn, New York, received a patent (U.S. patent №348437) for an Electro Magnetic Adding Machine. Weiss worked for the Kruse Check & Adding Machine Company in ...

The British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope, 3rd Earl Stanhope and Viscount Mahon, was born in London on 3 August 1753, as the second son in the noble and rich family of Lord Philip ...

Christian Hergenroeder was the inventor of an adding machine, the patent model of which is housed in the collection of the National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. C.W. Hergenroeder was ...

(Johänn) Christian Ludwig Gersten (or Gerstein) was born on 7 February 1701, in Gießen, a town in the German federal state of Hessen. He studied law and mathematics at the University of Gießen and at ...

Claude Chappe was born on Christmas day (25 December) 1763, in the small French town of Brûlon, some 200 km southwest of Paris, to Ignace Chappe d’Auteroche and Marie-Renée de Vernay de Vert. Besides ...

Claude Perrault (see the calculating machine of Perrault) was born in Paris on 25 September 1613, in the wealthy bourgeois family of a Parisian advocate — Pierre Perrault (1570-1652), and his wife ...

The first electronic computer was built during the 1940s by John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics and mathematics at Iowa State University, and one of his students, Clifford E. Berry. But the ...