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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 1844 the French Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué from Strasbourg (see biography of Jean-Baptiste Schwilgué), together with his son Charles, patented a key-driven calculating machine (brevet d’invention ...

These Are the World’s Top Armies-For-Hire Published: June 19, 2025 by John Seetoo Professional warriors, employed by governments and wealthy entities as private soldiers, have existed in practically ...

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, ...

Friedrich von Knaus (s) (1724-1789), was a German watchmaker, mechanician, and inventor, who built clockwork mechanisms that could, in a simple way, play musical instruments, write short phrases, or ...

Charles Babbage is credited for designing and giving birth to the idea of the first automatic digital computer. During the mid-1830s, Charles developed plans for an Analytical Engine. Although it wasn ...

The British statesman and versatile scientist Charles Stanhope, Viscount Mahon (see biography of Charles Stanhope) devoted a considerable part of his time and money to the developing of three ...