Dorr Felt

Born

Dorr Eugene Felt

March 18, 1862(1862-03-18)

Newark, Wisconsin, U.S.

Died August 7, 1930 (aged 68)

Chicago, Illinois, U.S.

Occupation Inventor, businessman

Dorr Eugene Felt (1862–1930) was an American inventor and industrialist who was known for having
invented the Comptometer, an early computing device, and the Comptograph, the first printing adding
machine. The Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company that he co-founded with Robert Tarrant on
January 25, 1889 remained a major player in the calculator industry until the mid 1970s.

Dorr E. Felt was born in Newark, Wisconsinwhere he grew up on the family farm and which he left at
age 14 to seek employment.

During the US Thanksgiving holidays of 1884 he decided to build the prototype of a new calculating
machine that he had invented. Because of his limited amount of money, he used a macaroni box for the
outside box, and skewers, staples and rubber bands for the mechanism inside. It was finished soon after
New Year's Day, 1885.

Felt brought his idea to Chicago businessman Robert Tarrant. They signed a partnership contract on
November 28, 1887, and incorporated the Felt & Tarrant Manufacturing Company on January 25,
1889. Felt later went on to invent more devices and acquired 46 domestic patents and 25 foreign ones.
The original macaroni box prototype and the first Comptograph ever sold are now part of the
Smithsonian Museum collection of antique calculators.

He was married to Agnes McNulty in 1891 and the couple had four daughters together.

Dorr Felt also was the first ambassador for the Department of Commerce formed to study labor abroad
after World War I. He was an excellent photographer, and many of his war-time and post-war time
photos were used by the government. He died in 1930 of a stroke.

Felt was awarded the John Scott Medal of The Franklin Institute in 1889

ROBERT NOYCE
 December 12, 1927(1927-12-12)
Born
Burlington, Iowa
June 3, 1990 (aged 62)
Died
Austin, Texas
Grinnell College
Alma mater
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Co-founder of Fairchild Semiconductor
Occupation
and Intel

Robert Norton Noyce (December 12, 1927 – June 3, 1990), nicknamed "the Mayor of Silicon Valley",
co-founded Fairchild Semiconductor in 1957 and Intel in 1968. He is also credited (along with Jack
Kilby) with the invention of the integrated circuit or microchip.[1] While Kilby's invention was six
months earlier, neither man rejected the title of co-inventor. Noyce was also a mentor and father-figure
to an entire generation of entrepreneurs, including Steve Jobs at Apple, Inc.

He received his Ph.D. in physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1953. He studied the
first transistors, developed at Bell Laboratories, in a Grinnell College classroom.

Intel's headquarters building, the Robert Noyce Building, in Santa Clara, California is named in his
honor, as is the Robert N. Noyce '49 Science Center, which houses the science division of Grinnell Col

Mr. Noyce was inducted into the Junior Achievement U.S. Business Hall of Fame in 1989. The science
building at his alma mater, Grinnell College, is named after him.

Legacy

The Noyce Foundation was founded in 1991 by his family. The foundation is dedicated to improving
public education in mathematics and science in grades K-12.

Patents

He accumulated sixteen patents to his name.

 Pentium
Pentium is a registered trademark that is included in the brand names of many of Intel's x86-compatible
microprocessors, both single- and multi-core. The name Pentium was derived from the Greek pente
(πέντε), meaning 'five', and the Latin ending -ium, a name selected after courts had disallowed
trademarking of number-based names like "i586" or "80586" (model numbers cannot always be
trademarked). Following Intel's previous series of 8086, 80186, 80286, 80386, and 80486
microprocessors, Intel's fifth-generation microarchitecture, the P5, was first released under the Pentium
brand on March 22, 1993. In 1995, Intel started to employ the registered Pentium trademark also for x86
microprocessors with radically different microarchitectures (e.g., Pentium Pro, II, III, 4, D, M, etc.). In
2006, the Pentium brand briefly disappeared from Intel's roadmaps, only to re-emerge in 2007.

In 1998, Intel introduced the Celeron[6] brand for low-priced microprocessors. With the 2006
introduction of the "upper" Core 2 brand, there was no plan to use the Pentium trademark anymore, but
Intel developed a line of mid-range dual-core microprocessors under the Pentium Dual-Core name at the
request of laptop manufacturers. The Pentium brand thus lost its "upper" position and was repositioned
between the Core 2 and Celeron Dual-Core lines as of 2007.

In 2009, the "Dual-Core" suffix was dropped, and new x86 microprocessors started carrying the plain
Pentium name again.

Konrad Zuse
Zuse

Konrad Zuse in 1992

Born 22 June 1910(1910-06-22)
 Berlin, German Empire
18 December 1995 (aged 85)
Died
Hünfeld, Germany
Residence Germany
Fields Computer science
Institutions Aerodynamic Research Institute
Alma mater Technical University of Berlin
Z3, Z4
Known for Plankalkül
Calculating Space (cf. digital physics)
Werner-von-Siemens-Ring in 1964,
Harry H. Goode Memorial Award in 1965
Notable (together with George Stibitz),
awards Great Cross of Merit in 1972
Computer History Museum Fellow Award in
1999 - weblink

Konrad Zuse (pronounced [ˈkɔnʁat ˈtsuːzə]; 22 June 1910 Berlin – 18 December 1995 Hünfeld near
Fulda) was a German engineer and computer pioneer.

His greatest achievement was the world's first functional program-controlled Turing-complete computer,
the Z3, in 1941 (the program was stored on a punched tape). He received the Werner-von-Siemens-Ring
in 1964 for the Z3.[1] His S2 computing machine is considered the first process-controlled computer,
which was used to help develop the Henschel Werke Hs 293 and Hs 294, which were precursors to the
modern cruise missile. It is also considered one of the first analog-to-digital converters. Many of his
projects were in collaboration with the Nazi Germany, which supported, financed, and deployed many
of them.

Zuse also designed the first high-level programming language, Plankalkül ("Plan Calculus"), first
published in 1948, although this was a theoretical contribution, since the language was not implemented
in his lifetime and did not directly influence early languages. One of the inventors of ALGOL
(Rutishauser) wrote: "The very first attempt to devise an algorithmic language was undertaken in 1948
by K. Zuse. His notation was quite general, but the proposal never attained the consideration it
deserved."

In addition to his technical work, Zuse founded one of the earliest computer businesses on the 1st of
April 1941 (Zuse Ingenieurbüro und Apparatebau)[2]. This company built the Z4, which became the
second commercial computer leased to ETH Zürich in 1950. Due to World War II, however, Zuse's
work went largely unnoticed in the UK and the U.S.; possibly his first documented influence on a U.S.
company was IBM's option on his patents in 1946. In the late 1960s, Zuse suggested the concept of a
Calculating Space (a computation-based universe).

There is a replica of the Z3, as well as the Z4, in the Deutsches Museum in Munich.

The Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin in Berlin has an exhibition devoted to Zuse, displaying twelve of
his machines, including a replica of the Z1, some original documents, including the specifications of
Plankalkül, and several of Zuse's paintings.