Computer Timeline – Page 27 – Yet another site for bright people, crafted by Georgi Dalakov

21 Sep 1895

Zeibig, Straßberger and Schumann

In 1895 three of the mechanics, who worked in the factory of Arthur Burkhardt in Glashütte—Ernst Eduard Zeibig (1856-1944), Friedrich Eugin Straßberger (1857-1945), who started with Curt Dietzschold in 1878, and Josef Schumann (1862-1913), who was a foreman in the factory, decided to leave and to found a new factory for..Read More

14 Nov 1895

Shohé Tanaka

In the early 1890s the young Japanese scientist and inventor Shohé Tanaka (1862-1945), at this time, making his doctoral studies in the capital of the German Reich, Berlin, devised an adding machine. In 1895 he applied for and later obtained several patents for such machines: two German patents from 1895..Read More

07 Dec 1895

Adolphus Dennis

In the late 1880s, Adolphus Sylvester Dennis (1857-1942), a former teacher at the Commercial College in Iowa City became an inveterate typewriter, calculator, and adding machine inventor, a man to whom at least 23 USA (as well as several Canadian and Great Britain) patents were issued, 12 of which were..Read More

18 Feb 1896

George Dudley

From 1896 to 1912 George Wilson Dudley from (West) Virginia was granted numerous (at least 15) patents in the USA, Canada, France, Spain, and Great Britain mainly for adding and printing machines, as well as for attachments for adding and tabulating for typewriters, method, and machine for writing in cipher,..Read More

14 Jun 1896

Carlo Fossa-Mancini

The Italian engineer and University professor Carlo Fossa-Mancini (1854-1931) was a talented hydro engineer known primarily for the design and building of an aqueduct in his native valley dell’Esino, and for his studies on the hydraulic ram. or us Carlo Fossa-Mancini is interesting mainly concerning the creation of the adding..Read More

07 Jul 1896

Fred Wendt

On 31 December 1895, Fred Wendt, an inventor from Marshfield, Wisconsin, filed a patent application for a keyboard-operated adding machine. The patent (see US patent Nr. 563435) was granted on 7 July 1896. Besides the patent application, nothing is known about this calculating machine, so obviously it remained only on..Read More

20 Apr 1897

De Kerniea Hiett

On 20 April 1897, De Kerniea James Thomas Hiett (1854-1930), an inveterate calculator designer of St. Louis, obtained his first patent for a calculating machine (US patent No. 580863, three-fourths assigned to Edmund Fanning Wickham (1854–1908), a local businessman and coal company owner)—a multi-column keyboard adding and printing calculator. Hiett..Read More

10 Jun 1897

Jewrem Ugritschitsch

The German businessman and inventor of Serbian origin Jewrem Ugritschitsch (also known as Jevrem Ugrich) was involved in designing, manufacturing, and selling calculating devices for many years. It seems he started in the middle 1890s because his first patent for Additions- und Multiplikationsmashine is from 10 June 1897 (see German..Read More

27 Jul 1897

Alvan Macauley

In 1895 the young engineer and lawyer James Alvan Macauley (1872-1952) became a patent attorney for the National Cash Register (NCR) in Dayton, Ohio. In the next 1896, he applied for his first patent for a cash register (US patent No. 587042). The patent, assigned to NCR, was the first..Read More

01 Sep 1897

Karl Ferdinand Braun

The first cathode-ray tube (CRT) was built in 1897 by the famous German physicist Karl Ferdinand Braun (1850-1918). The invention of Braun was based upon the work of many other scientists, as is the case with almost all inventions. Who was the first in this area? he history of Cathode..Read More