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 ...

In the history of computers, few are as memorable and as important to a company’s history as that of the Macintosh. Famously championed by Steve Jobs, the 1984 release of the Macintosh and its “1984” ...

The great American author Samuel Langhorne Clemens (1835–1910), better known by his pen name Mark Twain, wrote The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and its sequel, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, the latter ...

On 3 October 1853, Martial Roussel, a member of the Amiens Academy (Somme), applied for a patent for additionneuse (adding machine). The French patent No. 17528 for 15 years was granted on 24 November ...

Long before the hand-held calculators, there was the millionaire calculator machine—a large, clunky, and expensive mechanical machine that performed direct multiplications with only a single turn of a ...

“Modem” is an abbreviation of the device’s function, which is to act as a modulator-demodulator for data signals traversing analog and digital networks. As the product evolved, the transfer speeds ...

Newman Marshman was the inventor of the modern typewriter. As an African-American inventor, Marshman’s achievement is even more remarkable when one considers the natural obstacles that he had to face ...

In 1883 Karl Otto Büttner, a mechanical engineer from Dresden, Germany, patented (together with Carl Gustav Th. Heyde) his first calculating machine (German patent №DE26640). The dimensions of the ...

While most people only think about Mac OS, Linux, and Windows, Aldus Pagemaker was also released for IBM PC. It was even released for IBM PC before it was released for Windows. The creators of ...

The cylindrical calculating machines of the German parson Philipp Matthäus Hahn (see biography of Philipp Matthäus Hahn) were the first fully functional popular four-species mechanical calculating ...

Ramón Silvestre Verea Aguiar y García was a Spanish-born Hispanic inventor and author. Born December 11th, 1833, to Spanish parents Juan Verea Filloy and Florentina García de Porto, he grew up on the ...