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Institutions. Trinity College, Cambridge, Peterhouse, Cambridge. Signature. Charles Babbage KH FRS ( / ˈbæbɪdʒ /; 26 December 1791 – 18 October 1871) was an English polymath. [ 1] A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. [ 2]
William Stephen George Mann (born 8 June 1962) is a Canadian engineer, professor, and inventor who works in augmented reality, computational photography, particularly wearable computing, and high-dynamic-range imaging. Mann has sometimes been labeled the "Father of Wearable Computing" for early inventions and continuing contributions to the field.
That year he also published the essay "El arte poético de Horacio". In 1923 he published "El quichua y el Cañari" a philological study of Quechua and Cañari languages, with a Cañari Dictionary, which was awarded "La Palma de Oro" Prize. In 1924 he published his incomplete work on the death of Juan Seniergues. He had already published the ...
Henry Mill (c. 1683–1771) was an English inventor who patented the first typewriter in 1714. [ 1] He worked as a waterworks engineer for the New River Company, and submitted two patents during his lifetime. One was for a coach spring, while the other was for a "Machine for Transcribing Letters". The machine that he invented appears, from the ...
Joseph Marie Charles dit (called or nicknamed) Jacquard (French:; 7 July 1752 – 7 August 1834) was a French weaver and merchant. He played an important role in the development of the earliest programmable loom (the "Jacquard loom"), which in turn played an important role in the development of other programmable machines, such as an early version of digital compiler used by IBM to develop the ...
A field-sequential color television system similar to his Tricolor system was used in NASA's Voyager mission in 1979, to take pictures and video of Jupiter. [1]There was a Mexican science research and technology group created La Funck Guillermo González Camarena or The Guillermo González Camarena Foundation in 1995 that was beneficial to creative and talented inventors in Mexico.
Leonardo Torres Quevedo ( Spanish: [leoˈnaɾðo ˈtores keˈβeðo]; 28 December 1852 – 18 December 1936) was a Spanish civil engineer, mathematician and inventor with a career spanning the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He devised a number of ingenious inventions in many fields such as public transport, aeronautics, radio control ...
early 1973. Micral is a series of microcomputers produced by the French company Réalisation d'Études Électroniques ( R2E ), [1] beginning with the Micral N [2] in early 1973. The Micral N was one of the first commercially available microprocessor-based computer. In 1986, three judges at The Computer Museum, Boston – Apple II designer and ...