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Creation of complex Number Calculator
It was invented by George Stibitz. It performed remote calculations. This is probably the first example of remote access computing (all this word by word summary from https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/ ). -
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1940's Computer Inventions
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Creation of the Z3 computer
It was created by Konrad Zuse. It performed floating-point binary arithmetic and had a 22-bit word length. It was used mainly for performing aerodynamic calculations (all this info and word for word summary taken from https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/computers/). -
Creation of the The Atanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
It was created by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff. It was supposed to be the first full-scale computer (all this info and word for word summary from https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1942/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb35720a45b5). -
creation of Colossus
It was created by British engineer Tommy Flowers. It was used to break the complex Lorenz ciphers used by the Nazis during World War II (all this info and word by word summary from https://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1944/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb35720b2658). -
Creation of the Manchester Baby
This computer was created by University of Manchester researchers Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill. This computer was built to test a new computer program created by William and Kilburn and was the first program in history to run on a digital, electronic, stored-program computer (all this info and word for word summary came fromhttps://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/1948/#169ebbe2ad45559efbc6eb3572083fb7).