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Thomas Hobbes was an accomplished English philosopher, historian, and scientist. Many consider Hobbes to be one of the preeminent thinkers of the last thousand years. Many of his thoughts, theories, ...

Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar was a French inventor and entrepreneur renowned for developing, patenting, and manufacturing the Arithmometer. The Arithmometer was the first commercially successful ...

Charles Wales, a genius of mechanical motion and a native of Maryland, who lived in the early 1900s in Detroit, filled his first patent application for an adding machine in September 1902, and when in ...

Thomas Harold Flowers is the technical genius who created the world’s second electronic computer (after ABC of Atanasoff) and the world’s first electronic programmable computer — Colossus. Flowers, ...

Looking back through the 1980s is unquestionably an exciting look at how far computers have come over the last 40 years. Names like IBM, Atari, Apple, Commodore, and many more help us look at how we ...

The calculating machine of the Swiss clockmaker Victor (or Viktor) Schilt (1822-1880) was exhibited in 1851 at the Great Exposition of the Works of Industry of all Nations in Crystal Palace, London, ...

Vannevar Bush was an American inventor, electrical engineer, and science administrator. He was the leader of the Office of Scientific Research and Development during World War II. His offices were ...

When you think about the history of the computer mouse, all credit goes to Douglas Engelbart and Bill English. Their prototype set the path that would eventually change how billions worldwide use ...