Konrad Zuse

Birth of Konrad Zuse

Jun 22, 1910

Graduates from College

Sep 10, 1935

University at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin

Worked for Ford Motor Company

Sep 15, 1935

Worked in advertising

Begins working for airplane manufacturer

Oct 10, 1935

Airplane manufacturer by the name of Henschel Flugzeugwerke as a Stress Analyzer

Z1 computer

Jan 20, 1936

Z1 AKA "V1" was a binary mechanical calculator powered by electricity

Drafted to serve for Germany in WWII for 6 Months

Sep 1, 1939

Invented the Z2 Machine

Sep 1, 1940

Invented S1 Machine

Oct 10, 1941

Helped to guide missiles

Invented S2 Machine

Oct 10, 1941

Helped guide missiles

Z3 Computer Invented

Dec 10, 1941

The Z3 was the first fully automatic digital computer

Created the Z4

Oct 10, 1943

Z4 was the world's first commercial computer

Invented Plankalku

Oct 10, 1944

First computer programming language

Funds one of the earliest computer startup companies

Oct 10, 1946

Known as Zuse-Ingenieurbüro Hopferau

Published a book

Oct 10, 1969

Rechnender Raum (translated into English as Calculating Space).

Death of Konrad Zuse

Dec 18, 1995