Konrad Zuse

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  • Birth of Konrad Zuse

    Birth of Konrad Zuse

  • Graduates from College

    University at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg in Berlin

  • Worked for Ford Motor Company

    Worked in advertising

  • Begins working for airplane manufacturer

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

  • Z1 computer

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

  • Drafted to serve for Germany in WWII for 6 Months

  • Invented the Z2 Machine

  • Invented S1 Machine

    Helped to guide missiles

  • Invented S2 Machine

    Helped guide missiles
  • Z3 Computer Invented

    Z3 Computer Invented

    The Z3 was the first fully automatic digital computer

  • Created the Z4

    Z4 was the world's first commercial computer

  • Invented Plankalku

    First computer programming language

  • Funds one of the earliest computer startup companies

    Known as Zuse-Ingenieurbüro Hopferau

  • Published a book

    Rechnender Raum (translated into English as Calculating Space).

  • Death of Konrad Zuse