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British Bombe
Alan Turing & Harold Keen
The British bombe was created to help decipher German messages. Its creation was crucial to codebreaking messages created using the Nazi German Enigma machine. -
Antanasoff-Berry Computer (ABC)
John Vincent Atanasoff & Clifford Berry
First to use vacuum tubes allowing for greater speed than previous computers. -
Frequency Hopping
Hedy Lamarr
Austrian American actress that created the technology that was the basis to WIFI, Bluetooth, and GPS communication. Her intention was to aid war efforts by creating a way to guide torpedoes using radio waves. Although it was never implemented at the time. -
IBM Type 603
James W. Brice
First electronic calculator placed in production. Only 100 were made and it was quickly outclassed by more capable models. -
Modems
Jack Harrington
His group at the US Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratory created radar-data processing equipment. These modems turned data to sounds and then received sounds into data. This allowed computers to exchange data over phone lines.