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Pioneer of mainframe computing; designed IBM 704; chief architect of IBM System/360. [4] [5] Formulated Amdahl's law; also worked on IBM 709 and IBM 7030 Stretch. [6] 1939 Atanasoff, John: Built the first electronic digital computer, the Atanasoff–Berry Computer, though it was neither programmable nor Turing-complete. 1822, 1837 Babbage, Charles
She married retired Royal Navy officer John Morrell on 20 April 1926, and their daughter Rachel (later Bromby) was born in 1928. [4] [5] [11]Gladys Morrell died aged 80 in 1969; she was buried in the family tomb at St. James Church, Somerset, Bermuda.
Men of Progress, representing 19 contemporary American inventors, 1857. During the 19th century Britain, France, and Germany were at the forefront of new ideas in science and mathematics. [18] [19] But if the United States lagged behind in the formulation of theory, it excelled in using theory to solve problems: applied science. This tradition ...
Edgar Fitzgerald Gordon (20 March 1895 – 20 April 1955), born in Trinidad and Tobago, was a physician, parliamentarian, civil-rights activist [1] and labour leader in Bermuda, and is regarded as the "father of trade unionism" there: [2] "he championed the cause of Bermudian workers and fought for equal rights for black Bermudians, thereby laying the groundwork for much of the political and ...
Joseph Carl Robnett Licklider (1915–1990) was a faculty member of Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and researcher at Bolt, Beranek and Newman.He developed the idea of a universal computer network at the Information Processing Techniques Office (IPTO) of the United States Department of Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA).
Karl Wilhelm Otto Lilienthal (23 May 1848 – 10 August 1896) was a German pioneer of aviation who became known as the "flying man". [2] He was the first person to make well-documented, repeated, successful flights with gliders, [3] therefore making the idea of heavier-than-air aircraft a reality. Newspapers and magazines published photographs ...
She was a notable figure in the history of social work and women's suffrage in the United States and an advocate of world peace. [68] She co-founded Chicago's Hull House, one of America's most famous settlement houses. In 1920, she was a co-founder for the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU). [69]
McCullough, David: The Pioneers: The Heroic Story of the Settlers Who Brought the American Ideal West, Simon & Schuster Paperbacks, New York (2020). Randall, Emilius; Ryan, Daniel Joseph (1912). History of Ohio: the Rise and Progress of an American State. Vol. 2. New York: The Century History Company.