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Telex Messaging Network
In early period of German Reich, the telex messaging network was developed as a way to transmit military message. The telex system connects those teleprinters to each other over voice telephone lines, routed by modified telephone switches -
World Brain
Paul Otlet's systematic card catalog hence Hyperlinks, an automated cross reference system for information we'd search for. H.G Wells uses his system to create microfilms -
Alan Turning
Considered the inventor of the computer age, was successful of cracking the enigma code. Turing designed an electromechanical machine, called the Bombe, that searched through the permutations, and by the end of the war the British were able to read all daily German Naval Enigma traffic. Helped shorten the war by two years. -
Konrad Zuse
For his invention of the first program-controlled, electromechanical, digital computer and the first high-level programming language, "Plankalkul." Zuse spend weekends working in his parents living room building the Z1 computer, continued to develop several computers throughout World War 2 -
Worlds Fair 193
Elektro the Smoking Robot debuts in 1939 in Queens, New York at the fairgrounds Responses to voice commands, and delivers wisecracks which is pre recorded on 78 rph records. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuyTRbj8QSA
