In 1876 Curt Dietzschold (1852-1922), a German mechanical engineer from Dresden was invited to come to Glashütte (a small town in Sächsische Schweiz-Osterzgebirge, which was the birthplace of the ...

Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider, or “Lick”, was an American psychologist and computer science pioneer. There are many claims for the “father” of internet technology. Only one has the title of ...

Who Was Abraham Jakub Stern? Abraham Jakub Stern (alternatively spelled Avraham Ya’akov Shtern) was a mathematician, translator, mechanical engineer, and a leading figure in the Haskalah. He worked on ...

The German mechanic, constructor, and optician Anton (Antonius) Braun (see the biography of Anton Braun) (1686-1728) from Möhringen (Baden-Württemberg, Germany), was appointed in 1724 as a mechanician ...

Albert Stettner Jr., a mechanic from Berlin, Prussia, was a holder of 2 German (DE21236 and DE23098 from 1882) and 1 USA (US277627 from 1883) patent for keyboard adding machines. The patents DE23098 ...

In the late 1860s, Cathrinus Nikolay Arbo Collett (see biography of Cathrinus Collett), a young Norwegian civil (railway) engineer, at that time working as an assistant and later a chief of the ...

Released in the United States on November 18, 2001, three months after Japan, the Nintendo GameCube was a hotly anticipated [ ...

In today’s computer age, it’s likely that the first shots of any war won’t happen on the battlefield but will come from someone sitting behind a keyboard and monitor. For the United States, the ...

Smartphones are ubiquitous these days, everyone and their cousin have one. However, in the early years of the tech’s introduction to the masses, there were many who took a swing at Apple’s newly ...

As the world today mostly recognizes Google as a verb for search engines, it is difficult to remember a time before Google was created. However, the World Wide Web is full of search engines that time ...

One of the most important companies in the history of computers, smartphones, and tablets, Apple is a name that needs no introduction. Since the 1970s, Apple has been at the forefront of the computer ...