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  Hamilton, NY
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  Graduated Mulberry High School in two years
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  Graduated from University of Florida with a electrical engineering degree
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  John graduated with a masters in mathematics from Iowa State University
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  was a professor in mathematics and physics while also experimenting with electronics, vacuum tubes and more.
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  John receives his doctorate in theoretical physics from the university of Wisconsin
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  John, with the help of Glen Murphy, create the first small analog calculator
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  John receives a grant for $650 from Iowa State University to build the first computer
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  Astranoff-Berry computer (ABC) is the first computer built
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  A defense related position that was well paid
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  Makes $10,000 off a government paid job
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  In 1949, john and Lua divorced and she took his kids to Colorado. He remarried Alice in the same year
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  he became chief scientist for the Army Field Forces in Fort Monroe, Virginia
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  this was at the Naval Ordnance Laboratory
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  this was a research and engineering company in Rockville, Maryland
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  the company was sold to Aerojet General Corporation
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  1959-1961
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  Died of a stroke in his house
