Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. Zuse went to Braunsberg HighSchool and later studied in Civil Engineering at Technische Hochschule Charlottenburg-Berlin (Technical College in Charlottenburg-Berlin, Germany)(Rough Translation). Was Zuse the first to invent an electronic digital computer? Zuse did not begin with electronic computer, but with mechanical and electromachanical computers. Civil engineers have to do large quantities of calculation tables. Zuse didn't like this so he thought it was possible to be able to do calculations automatically. He looked at computers that were being processed at that time, but no computers, even those with punchcards were able to be used for this purpose(Automatic). So he decide to go a new way. He didn't understand anything of the calculating machines. So he was free to go new ways and chose the best systems for making calculations, the binary system, to chose the principal of programming, and to chose what they called as the "Floating Point" (Arithmetic). He began inventing in his parents basement, with homemade devices from around the house he made his first invention the Z-1, in a perfectly private place.
Was Zuse influenced by other researchers? No!, when he was starting(around 1934 or 1935), He didn't know about Charles Babbage. He only knew that there were existing punchcard machines, but he didn't know the details of them. He only knew it couldn't help him. So he began from the beginning with no influence. Surely, he knew that the binary system was known to mathmaticians, but he didn't know that colleagues of his had already worked on machines using the binary system.
Why did he select binary digital technology as opposed to an analog system? He had a feeling that information could not be transferred or represented by a programmable computer in a way that man is used to...He dicided to take the binary system because he thought that the electromagnetic relay is very well suited for computers as a way to express a binary digit. Zuse didnt only use the binary system for numbers, but to also organize the mathematical point of view.
Konrad Zuse got married in 1945 and became a father of 5 children. Konrad Zuse passed away 1995 in Huhnfeld, Germany. Konrad got many honors and prizes from international associations and universities. He even got some from the German Government.
Was Zuse influenced by other researchers? No!, when he was starting(around 1934 or 1935), He didn't know about Charles Babbage. He only knew that there were existing punchcard machines, but he didn't know the details of them. He only knew it couldn't help him. So he began from the beginning with no influence. Surely, he knew that the binary system was known to mathmaticians, but he didn't know that colleagues of his had already worked on machines using the binary system.
Why did he select binary digital technology as opposed to an analog system? He had a feeling that information could not be transferred or represented by a programmable computer in a way that man is used to...He dicided to take the binary system because he thought that the electromagnetic relay is very well suited for computers as a way to express a binary digit. Zuse didnt only use the binary system for numbers, but to also organize the mathematical point of view.
Konrad Zuse got married in 1945 and became a father of 5 children. Konrad Zuse passed away 1995 in Huhnfeld, Germany. Konrad got many honors and prizes from international associations and universities. He even got some from the German Government.