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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Looking back to 1999 brings us to the story of Shawn Fanning and Sean Parker, who didn’t know exactly how at the time, but they would change the music industry forever. The release of their app, ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...