Computer Timeline – Page 32 – Yet another site for bright people, crafted by Georgi Dalakov

06 Sep 1928

William Richards and Alan Reffell

Great Britain’s first robot Eric was created in 1928 by the First World War veteran and a noted journalist Captain William Richards (known as WH) and by the early aviator and aircraft engineer Alan Reffell, to replace George VI (then the Duke of York) in opening the Exhibition of the..Read More

11 Dec 1929

Federico Pucci

In December 1929, the Italian inventor and linguist Federico Pucci presented in Salerno, a port city southeast of Naples, Italy, his study on “automatic translator”. The next year, 1930, the study was presented to the Italian press. In the same year, 1930, the text of “French-Italian Mechanical Translator” was exhibited..Read More

17 Jan 1930

Raymond Valtat

The binary numeral system, used internally by all modern computers, is not a new concept. It was used by the old Egyptians in the 18th century BC and reinvented at the beginning of the 17th century in Europe by Thomas Harriot. In the second half of the 17th century, Leibniz..Read More

16 Jun 1932

Reynold Johnson

Reynold B. Johnson (1906–1998) was a remarkable American inventor, one of the IBM company’s most prolific inventors, specializing in electromechanical devices. He was the owner of more than 90 patents and is said to be the “father” of the hard disk drive, automatic test scoring equipment, microphonograph technology, a type..Read More

15 Sep 1933

Pyotr Trojanskii

For many centuries, people have been trying to break down the language barrier, to create a common language for all people, to find a way to learn all languages, or to create a technology that allows people to understand foreign languages without wasting time and effort in learning them. The..Read More

01 Nov 1934

Paul Otlet

The Belgian Paul Marie Ghislain Otlet (1868–1944) from Brussels was an author, entrepreneur, visionary, lawyer, and peace activist, and which most important for us—he is one of several people who have been considered the father of information science. Otlet started his work on how to collect and organize the world’s..Read More

15 Sep 1935

Thomas Ross and Stevenson Smith

The brilliant electrochemical expert from the University of Washington, Thomas Ross, certainly was not the first and only man, who can be credited for creating a thinking machine. In fact, Ross got his original inspiration from the works of Clark Leonard Hull (1884-1952), an influential American psychologist, who studied logic..Read More

01 Apr 1936

Vladimir Lukianov

Vladimir Sergeevich Lukianov (Владимир Сергеевич Лукьянов) was born in Moscow, Russian Empire, on 17 March 1902, in the family of an insurance agent. In 1919 he graduated from a Moscow classical high school and entered the building department of the Moscow State University of Railway Engineering. He graduated in 1925..Read More

28 May 1936

Alan Turing

Alan Mathison Turing (1912–1954) was an extremely gifted man, who was influential in the development of computer science and provided a formalization of the concept of the algorithm and computation with his famous Turing machine, playing a significant role in the creation of the modern computer. Turing discovered something that..Read More

14 Jun 1936

Homer Dudley

Homer Walter Dudley (1896-1980), B.S. in electrical engineering, 1921, Pennsylvania State College; M.A. in mathematics, 1924, Columbia University, was a member of the research staff of Bell Telephone Laboratories from 1921 to 1961. His work focused on improving the transmission of speech by wire, cable, and radio telephony systems. He..Read More