Konrad Zuse

Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer from Technical University in Berlin. Zuse invented the first automatic calculating machine during 1935-1938 and called it V1 and it was the size of a pool table. Zuse later changed the name to Z1 so that it would not be confused with the German rocket V1. Z1 was a binary mechanical calculator; it executed instructions read from punch cards and metallic shafts that could shift from position 0 to 1 (O 'Regan). Zuse invented Z1 to speed up calculation while studying the construction of buildings and roads. These types of constructions involved huge systems of linear equations that were tedious to perform given the level of technology at that time which was the logarithm rule and basic mechanical calculators…

Konrad Zuse is commonly referred to as the Pioneer of computer engineering. Coming from humble begging’s, Zuse’s father worked at a post office to support his son’s interest in computers. Born in Berlin, Zuse attended school as an architect until switching to a civil engineering degree. Tedious calculations in his school work made Zuse want to develop a machine to help him. After taking a job in Herschel Aircraft Co., he began to work on the Z1, his first attempt at a mechanical computer. After…

perform as well as make laborious tasks easier to execute. Konrad Zuse, a German civil engineer, was one of the men who were at the forefront of the development of modern computers. Konrad Zuse is credited with making one of the first digital and programmable computers. Zuse developed multiple digital computers from the Z1 to the programmable Z4 digital computer. Konrad Zuse…

German engineer Konrad Zuse, one of the world’s leading computer designer, managed to create a binary electromechanical computer known as the Z2. Although initially drafted as a German soldier, the Germans saw potential in Zuse and recruited him to be a German engineer. With the previous model Z1 being purely mechanical, the Z2 was the first operational programmable computer. This computer incorporated the binary system, yet on of its downside was that it was slow. His plan to compensate this…

Most notably are Konrad Zuse’s machines. The “Z” machines were designed in Berlin between 1936 and 1941. Zuse’s Z1 machine has been called the first computer in the world. “His decision to build the machines were for exploiting the main ideas of working with binary numbers and the control unit being separated from the storage”(Rojas Konrad, 5). The Z1 was the first programmable computer of German history. Although it was unreliable “the Z1 showed that the architectural design was sound, which…

This calculator initiated the use of the word “computers”. The “computers” where not machines, but humans, and they worked in “computer rooms” full of small desks. The Monroe Manual Rotary Calculator was a crank machine that multiplies quickly and easily. You would set one number in the keys, then the “computers” would crank the big crank forward one turn to add and back to subtract. Twenty-four years later the first freely programmable computer was created by Konrad Zuse. The Z1 computer was…

I have always liked computers since I got my first one. I am even using a computer to write this paper. There have recently been many advancements in computers in recent years. There have been some very important people and new applications made possible by these people. Computers have been made smaller, faster, lighter, and stronger and have made things in the medical field, military field, and for normal use possible that were not possible a few years ago. We have made more advances in…

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