Tech in the 40s

COMPLEX NUMBER CALCULATOR

1940

Inventor: George Robert Stibitz
The CNC machine made number calculations from a remote location. it is a predecessor of modern day calculators found on laptops and phones.

THE BOMBE

1941

Inventors:Alan Turing and Harold Keen of the British Tabulating Machine Company
the bombe was created to decrypt Nazi messages, which proved to be very difficult as there were 10^114 possible combinations that no human could compute in a day.

CURTA CALCULATOR

1943

Inventor: Curt Herzstark
While in a concentration camp in world war II, herzstark refined his model of the worlds smallest four function numbers calculator. his design was mechanical, not digital.

ENIAC

1946

Inventors: John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert
The ENAIC is a 30 ton, 1000 square foot electronic computer. when introduced it was 1000 times faster than any computer before it and in its first ten years of operation did more computing than all of humanity has until that point.

MODEM

1949

Inventor:Jack Harrington
The invention of the modem offered an affordable solution to the communication of computers by turning data into sounds, and transmitting them into telephone lines.