Jacques de Vaucanson is a French engineer. He created the world’s first robots, the first automated loom, and the first all-metal lathe.

Professional warriors, employed by governments and wealthy entities as private soldiers, have existed in practically every society across every race and culture since the dawn of civilization. 21st ...

Analog computers continued to be used in some specific applications, such as aircraft flight simulators, aircraft flight computers, and university teaching control systems. Because digital computers ...

James White Many thanks to Mr. Denis Roegel, Professor at Loria, France, for his seminal work on White’s […] ...

Samuel Morland created three separate calculating machines as well as a variety of other devices. Jump in to read about his inventions!

WWII hindered the progress of computer inventors like Atanasoff and Zuse but had the opposite effect on the first British steps toward the creation of electronic computers. During the war, the ...

American Engineer, Vannevar Bush, created Memex. Read on to learn more about this conceptual system for retrieving and storing data!

Keypoints There were few World War 2 fighter aircraft that could match the speed and firepower of America's top fighters The Republic P-47 Thunderbolt and Lockheed P-38 Lightning were some of the best ...

George Boole was a self-taught mathematician, philosopher, logician and mathematics professor at Queen’s College, Cork in Ireland.

Jean-Baptiste Sosime Schwilgué (1776–1856) was a famous French engineer and inventor from the 19th century, Officier de la Légion d’Honneur, best known as the architect of the last astronomical clock ...