Technology Decade Timeline 1940's

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  • The Complex Number Calculator

    The Complex Number Calculator

    Inventor: George Stibitz
    The Complex Number Calculator stunned people of that time when Stibitz began performing calculations on the CNC. It was the first known example of remote access computing. Also the first Electromechanical Computer in America.
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    Technology Decade Timeline 1940's

  • Z3 Computer

    Z3 Computer

    Inventor: Konrad Zuse
    The original Z3 was used for aerodynamic calculations but was destroyed in a bombing raid, It was later reconstructed by Zuse. It was the first working programmable and fully automatic digital computer.

  • 1942

  • The Curta Calculator

    The Curta Calculator

    Inventor: Curt Herzstark
    It is the first hand-held calculator designed to fit in the palm of the hand. It was invented by Curt during his time imprisoned at the Buchenwald concentration camp. He made history as the first smallest all-mechanic calculator ever built.
  • Kidney Dialysis Machine

    Kidney Dialysis Machine

    Inventor: Willem Kolff
    The Kidney Dialysis Machine was built by Willem Kolff as a way to keep patients alive. He also made the first artificial kidney and heart, preserving many lives of patients. This started when he watch a patient slowly die from kidney failure.
    Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/health/13kolff.html

  • 1945

  • 1946

  • 1947

  • First Computer Program

    First Computer Program

    Inventors: Frederic Williams and Tom Kilburn
    The first program to run on a digital computer.

  • 1949

  • 1950