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Name: Konrad Zuse
Birth Date: 1910
Death Date: 1995
Nationality: German
Gender: Male
Occupations: engineer and computer designer

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Biography of Konrad Zuse
325 words, approx. 1 pages
Konrad Zuse was the designer of the first operational, fully electronic, program-controlled, general-purpose computer. He created the computer in Germany in 1941, but the machine was largely unknown until the 1960s. Zuse was born in Berlin and studied...


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Zuse, Konrad Summary
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Konrad Zuse. German Engineer 1910–1995 Konrad Zuse was a German engineer who designed and built a binary computer during the 1930s. He is thought to have created the first functioning program-controlled computer, however his...
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Konrad Zuse Summary
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1910-1995 German engineer who built the world's first binary calculating machine—the Z1—in 1938. Zuse completed his degree in civil engineering, and began his career as a design engineer in the aircraft industry. In the 1930s he...
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Zuse, Konrad
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(born June 22, 1910, Berlin, Ger.—died Dec. 18, 1995, Hünfeld) German engineer. In 1941 he constructed the first fully operational program-controlled electromechanical binary calculating machine, or digital computer, called the Z3. The...
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Konrad Zuse [ˈkɔn.ʁat ˈtsuː.zə] (June 22, 1910 Berlin - December 18, 1995 Hünfeld) was a German engineer and computer pioneer. His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled computer, the Z3, in 1941 (the program was...


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The Independent - London
OBITUARY : Konrad Zuse
12/21/1995: 1,004 words, approx. 3 pages
If Germany had been a victor in the Second World War, then today Konrad Zuse would probably be recognised world-wide as the father of the computer. In 1941 he completed the Z1, the world's first fully operational automatic digital computer: a mechanical device...
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The Washington Post
Computer Pioneer Konrad Zuse
12/20/1995: 581 words, approx. 2 pages
Konrad Zuse, 85, the German engineer who built one of the world's first computers and lost it in the wartime Allied bombing of Berlin, died recently at his home near Fulda, Germany, after a heart attack. The date of his death was not reported....
 


 

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