Who created the world's first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer? And why does everyone think it's an American, 4 years later?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
History is not a collection of objective records.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Z3_(computer)
History is not a collection of objective records.
In 1937, Claude Shannon introduced the idea of mapping Boolean algebra onto electronic relays in a seminal work on digital circuit design. Zuse, however, did not know of Shannon's work and developed the groundwork independently[11]: 149 for his first computer Z1, which he designed and built from 1935 to 1938.this is the one factor that makes me question whether it should be considered first.. conditional branching is pretty significant to what we consider a computer. better informed people than myself have come up with a variety of takes on this, i read all that i see because i find Zuse fascinating but i still am not sure if its fair to call one system or the other "first".
the advent of computing podcast has some interesting well researched episodes, scroll down a little to 145 and 146: https://adventofcomputing.com/