TOUCH SCREEN

Touch Screen – Complete History of the Touch Screen. Touch Screen. The concept of now ubiquitous touchscreen interface was put into words in October, 1965, when Eric Arthur Johnson, an engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern, England, who was interested in developing touchscreen for air traffic control, described his ideas for a capacitive touchscreen (see the nearby photo from PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD Printed Circuit Board. After Gustav Tauschek, another Viennese engineer and inventor—Paul Eisler, made a significant contribution in the modern electronics industry with the invention of printed circuit board (PCB) in 1936.. The Austrian Jew Paul Eisler was born in Vienna in 1907. After graduating with an engineering degree from Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology

COMPUTER MOUSE

Douglas Engelbart in 1984, showing the first mouse and a new one (Courtesy The Bootstrap Institute. Computer Mouse. The first computer mouse was conceived of in the early 1960’s by Douglas Engelbart (see biography of Douglas Engelbart), then a Director of Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), in Menlo

Park, California.

CURT HERZSTARK

Curt Herzstark. Curt (Kurt) Herzstark (the inventor of the remarkable Curta calculator) was born on 26 January 1902 in Vienna.He was the first-born of Samuel Jakob Herzstark, an Austrian Jew, self-taught engineer and businessman, and his wife, the "native" Austrian Marie Amalie Herzstark (nee Toman), a MODEM – COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE MODEMHISTORY OF THE INTERNET SUMMARYCABLE MODEM HISTORYCLEAR MODEM HISTORYDIAL UP MODEM HISTORYHOW TO CHECK MODEM HISTORYHOW TO DELETE MODEM HISTORY The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two OS 400 – COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE IBM OS/400 OS 400 – Complete History of the IBM OS/400. OS 400. On June 21, 1988, IBM introduced its new minicomputer and enterprise server platform AS/400 (later renamed to iSeries, System i and Power Systems), bundled with the operating system OS/400 (later renamed to

i5/OS and IBM i).

GIOVANNI FONTANA

Giovanni Fontana. More then half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript of the Italian Renaissance was produced by a Venetian scholar and engineer—Giovanni Jacopo Antonio de la Fontana (known also as Johannes Fontana de Venetiis).. Giovanni Fontana was born in the early 1390s in Padua (or in Venice), in the craftman’s

MATHIAS BÄUERLE

Mathias Bäuerle elder (1838-1916) and his son Tobias Bäuerle (1863-1933) Mathias Bäuerle. In 1903, the German clock manufacturer from Schwarzwäld—Bäuerle Uhrenfabrik (Clock Factory), Sankt Georgen, launched his adding machine Peerless, which soon became popular and won gold medals at exhibitions in St. Louis (World’s Fair of 1904), Liège (1905) and Milan (1906).

JUANELO TURRIANO

Juanelo Turriano. The first android in the Western World, a completely mechanical figure which simulated a living human or animal, operating with apparently responsive action, is believed to have been constructed in 1525 by Hans Bullmann (?-1535) of Nuremberg, Germany. W. HART. CA10U1ATORS. V»10.199,289. PATENTED JAN. 15,1878. W. HART. Ca10u1ators._ v»10.199,289. Patented Jan. 15,1878. ` | NESS ' » ’ l Ñ . ¿$775 ¿f if@ ' f á/ ` ' ' ` ' M ¿464 - v r -v ‘

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TOUCH SCREEN

Touch Screen – Complete History of the Touch Screen. Touch Screen. The concept of now ubiquitous touchscreen interface was put into words in October, 1965, when Eric Arthur Johnson, an engineer at the Royal Radar Establishment in Malvern, England, who was interested in developing touchscreen for air traffic control, described his ideas for a capacitive touchscreen (see the nearby photo from PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD Printed Circuit Board. After Gustav Tauschek, another Viennese engineer and inventor—Paul Eisler, made a significant contribution in the modern electronics industry with the invention of printed circuit board (PCB) in 1936.. The Austrian Jew Paul Eisler was born in Vienna in 1907. After graduating with an engineering degree from Technische Universität Wien (Vienna University of Technology

COMPUTER MOUSE

Douglas Engelbart in 1984, showing the first mouse and a new one (Courtesy The Bootstrap Institute. Computer Mouse. The first computer mouse was conceived of in the early 1960’s by Douglas Engelbart (see biography of Douglas Engelbart), then a Director of Augmentation Research Center (ARC) at Stanford Research Institute (SRI), in Menlo

Park, California.

CURT HERZSTARK

Curt Herzstark. Curt (Kurt) Herzstark (the inventor of the remarkable Curta calculator) was born on 26 January 1902 in Vienna.He was the first-born of Samuel Jakob Herzstark, an Austrian Jew, self-taught engineer and businessman, and his wife, the "native" Austrian Marie Amalie Herzstark (nee Toman), a MODEM – COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE MODEMHISTORY OF THE INTERNET SUMMARYCABLE MODEM HISTORYCLEAR MODEM HISTORYDIAL UP MODEM HISTORYHOW TO CHECK MODEM HISTORYHOW TO DELETE MODEM HISTORY The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two OS 400 – COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE IBM OS/400 OS 400 – Complete History of the IBM OS/400. OS 400. On June 21, 1988, IBM introduced its new minicomputer and enterprise server platform AS/400 (later renamed to iSeries, System i and Power Systems), bundled with the operating system OS/400 (later renamed to

i5/OS and IBM i).

GIOVANNI FONTANA

Giovanni Fontana. More then half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript of the Italian Renaissance was produced by a Venetian scholar and engineer—Giovanni Jacopo Antonio de la Fontana (known also as Johannes Fontana de Venetiis).. Giovanni Fontana was born in the early 1390s in Padua (or in Venice), in the craftman’s

MATHIAS BÄUERLE

Mathias Bäuerle elder (1838-1916) and his son Tobias Bäuerle (1863-1933) Mathias Bäuerle. In 1903, the German clock manufacturer from Schwarzwäld—Bäuerle Uhrenfabrik (Clock Factory), Sankt Georgen, launched his adding machine Peerless, which soon became popular and won gold medals at exhibitions in St. Louis (World’s Fair of 1904), Liège (1905) and Milan (1906).

JUANELO TURRIANO

Juanelo Turriano. The first android in the Western World, a completely mechanical figure which simulated a living human or animal, operating with apparently responsive action, is believed to have been constructed in 1525 by Hans Bullmann (?-1535) of Nuremberg, Germany. W. HART. CA10U1ATORS. V»10.199,289. PATENTED JAN. 15,1878. W. HART. Ca10u1ators._ v»10.199,289. Patented Jan. 15,1878. ` | NESS ' » ’ l Ñ . ¿$775 ¿f if@ ' f á/ ` ' ' ` ' M ¿464 - v r -v ‘

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SOFTWARE - HISTORY COMPUTER The software industry is one of the largest and most influential industries in the world presently. It began as early as 1830s with Charles Babbage‘s Analytical Engine, but was actually established in the late 1950s, when the use of computers for business applications expanded rapidly creating a huge demand for people with programming

experience.

CRAY SUPERCOMPUTER

Cray Supercomputer. Seymour Cray (1925–1996) is a USA engineer and supercomputer architect who designed a series of computers, that were the fastest in the world for decades. ABACUS – COMPLETE HISTORY OF THE ABACUS The Macintosh, or Mac, is a series of several lines of personal computers, manufactured by Apple Inc. The first Macintosh was introduced on January 24, 1984, by Steve Jobs and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two

GIOVANNI FONTANA

Giovanni Fontana. More then half a century before the extraordinary machine drawings of Leonardo da Vinci, the first technology manuscript of the Italian Renaissance was produced by a Venetian scholar and engineer—Giovanni Jacopo Antonio de la Fontana (known also as Johannes Fontana de Venetiis).. Giovanni Fontana was born in the early 1390s in Padua (or in Venice), in the craftman’s BURRIDGE AND MARSHMAN & THE TYPEWRITER (COMPLETE HISTORY) Burridge and Marshman & The Typewriter (Complete History) Lee Burridge (left image) and Newman Marshman (right) Burridge and Marshman. Lee Burridge (biography of Lee Burridge) and Newman Marshman (biography of Newman Marshman) were inventive geniuses and manufacturers, primarily known as typewriter inventors.In early 1890s they devised and patented two adding machines (patent THE HISTORY OF THE AUTOMATA OF LEONARDO DA VINCI The Automata of Leonardo da Vinci. It is out of the question, that one of the greatest geniuses of the mankind Leonardo da Vinci, mentioned in several other pages of this site, designed automatic machines. Although it is clear that he invented such devices, the materials that survived until this day doesn’t give a clear account on the way they

operated.

ALTAIR 8800

Altair 8800. In contrast with the first microprocessor based personal computer—Micral, the MITS Altair 8800 was extremely successful market product. The designer—Ed Roberts intended to sell only a few hundred to hobbyists, but he was surprised when he sold thousands in

the first month.

GEORGE BOOLE

George Boole. The English mathematician and philosopher George Boole (1815-1864) was one of the first men, after the great Gottfried Leibniz, who believed that the human thinking is mastered by laws, which can be described by means of mathematic.Boole is the inventor of Boolean logic, which is the basis of modern digital computer logic, thus Boole is regarded in hindsight as a founder of the

JUANELO TURRIANO

Juanelo Turriano. The first android in the Western World, a completely mechanical figure which simulated a living human or animal, operating with apparently responsive action, is believed to have been constructed in 1525 by Hans Bullmann (?-1535) of Nuremberg, Germany.

LEE BURRIDGE

Lee Burridge. Lee Spear Burridge was born in Paris, France, on 22 September, 1861, the son of Dr. Levi Spear Burridge, a noted American dentist, and Emma Frances (Ogden) Burridge.

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HISTORY OF COMPUTERS Everywhere you turn, you see and hear about the _computer_, _Internet_, _information age_, etc. During the last several decades, the computer has become undoubtedly the most important invention of humankind. Today, virtually all of the world's knowledge is only a few taps away, which is truly mind-blowing. What is the reason for this explosive development—social needs, economic incentives or the dream of humans to create a _thinking_ machine? Who made it possible? When and where did this most important invention actually happened? Who are the pioneers of the computers, networks, and software? This site will try to answer to some of these questions, providing a huge amount of vital information about the history of computing and computers. The information is divided into several sections: * Dreamers — the old human dream for thinking machine and a robot * Calculating tools — from the abacus to the modern gadgets * Mechanical calculators — who was the first and foremost? * Charles Babbage — the father of the

modern computer

* Birth of the modern computer — let the Sun rise... * Internet — the history of the global

network

* People — the most important people in the history of computers According to the great Leonardo da Vinci, there are three types of people: those who see; those who see, when they are shown; those who do not see. Let's try to fall among at least in the middle category. Have a nice read, and never forget the age-old quote: "Life is too short to be taken seriously."

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