And the first calculating machine, invented by French entrepreneur Charles-Xavier Thomas de Colmar, was put into serial production in 1851. Without the work of these and many other inventors, it’s ...
Tech bloggers are fuming over a comment by an IBM vice president taking credit for the invention of the personal computer. But who actually invented the PC anyway? Turns out it's more complicated than ...
ROCK ISLAND, Ill. (AP) -- Was the world's first electronic computer invented over bourbon, under a painting of a nude woman, after midnight at Rock Island's Hunter's Club?