Konrad Zuse

Background

A German civil engineer and computer pioneer.

Contribution

Built the Z3 (1941), the first working programmable, fully automatic digital computer, using electromechanical relays and binary floating-point.

Associated inventions

• Programmable Computing

Collaborators & contemporaries

• Charles Babbage
• Ada Lovelace
• Alan Turing

Sources & further reading

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• Deutsches Museum — collections & researchDeutsches Museum · Museum
• Computer History Museum — exhibits & timelineComputer History Museum · Museum

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