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Encyclopedia: Wilhelm Schickard

Wilhelm Schickard (April 22 1592 – October 23 1635) was a German polymath who built the first automatic calculator in 1623.

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1623 in science

The year 1623 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed here. See also: 1622 in science, other events of 1623, 1624 in science and the list of years in science. Computers Wilhelm Schickard invents the mechanical calculating machine Births June 19 - Blaise Pascal...

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1635 in science

The year 1635 in science and technology included many events, some of which are listed See also: 1634 in science, other events of 1635, 1636 in science, list of years in science. Births Robert Hooke, English scientist and inventor (died 1703) Deaths October 23 - Wilhelm Schickard, German...

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Matthias Ettrich

user interfaces (GUI) which led to the KDE project. Ettrich studied at the Wilhelm Schickard Institute...

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1592

, 1st Duke of Buckingham. December 6 - William Cavendish, 1st Duke of Newcastle. Wilhelm Schickard...

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1623

first colonizes Saint Kitts and Nevis. Wilhelm Schickard invents his "Calculating Clock", and early...

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Schickard crater

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List of people on stamps of Germany

) Wilhelm Röntgen (1951) Roswitha of Gandersheim (1973) S Wilhelm Schickard (1973) Friedrich von... (1965) Friedrich von Bodelschwingh (1967) Dietrich Bonhoeffer (1964) Wilhelm Busch (1958) C John...) Georg Wilhelm Hegel (1970) Heinrich Heine (1956, 1972) Gustav Heinemann (1970) Heinrich Hertz (1957...

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Charles Babbage

untidiness, his awareness of logarithmic tables, and work on calculating machines carried out by Wilhelm Schickard, Blaise Pascal and Gottfried Leibniz. In 1822, in a letter to Sir Humphrey Davy on the...

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List of computer scientists

- Unified Modeling Language, Object Management Group S Jean Sammet - Programming languages Wilhelm Schickard Doug Schmidt Dana Scott - domain theory Ravi Sethi - Compilers, 2nd Dragon Book Adi Shamir...

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History of computing hardware

of mechanical devices like the Curta calculator. In 1623 Wilhelm Schickard built the first... Pascal (the Pascaline, 1640) and Gottfried Wilhelm von Leibniz (1670) followed. Leibniz also...

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