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Born in York, Pennsylvania.
He spent his childhood in Dayton, Ohio.
His dad worked as a professor in theology.
His mom was a math teacher even before marrige.
In Ohio, his dad worked in a local college.
He had 2 sisters- Mildred and Eleanor
He had 1 brother- Earle. -
When he was 8, he nearly set his house of fire by overloading the circuits with an electric motor given to him by his father.
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George Stibitz got enrolled in Dennison University and got his bachelor's dergree.
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Went to Union University in Schenectady, New York and got his M.S. Degree.
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Went to Cornell University to start doctoral program and got Ph.D. degree in mathmatical physics.
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George Stibitz graduated from Cornell University and got his first job at Bell Telephone Laboratories in New York City.
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George Stibitz gets married to Dorothea Lamson and has 2 kids named Mary and Martha.
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George Stibitz invented the first electric calculator. He named it the Complex Number Calculator.
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Stibitz worked in the National Defense Commitee dealing with computation.
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Stibitz ended working and satrted working as a private consultant in Burlington, Vermont.
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George Stibitz quits working as a private consultant and doesn't work for 10 years.
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Starts working on applied computer systems development to a variety of topics in biomedicine.
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Stibitz received the Harry Goode Award for lifetime achievement in engineering from AFIPS.
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In 1966, Stibitz became a Full Professor.
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In 1970 he became a Professer Emeritus.
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Stibitz earned Piore Award of Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers.
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In 1982, Stibitz earned the Babbage Society Medal.
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In 1983, Stibitz got in the Dartmouth College and was named to the Inventors Hall of Fame.
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George Robert Stibitz died in his home in Hanover, New Hampshire on January 31, 1995 at the age 90.
