Bibliography Konrad Zuse
Konrad Zuse He was born in Berlin on June (the) 22th 1910. In Germany, Zuse graduated as a civil engineer from the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (today the Technische Universität Berlin or Technical Univeersity of Berlin) in 1935. During his engineering studies, Zuse had to do many routine calculations by hand, which he found boring. This experience led him to dream of a machine that could do calculations. He started working at Henschel’s aircraft factory in Dessau, but only a year later he resigned his post to build a programmable machine. He worked in his parents' apartment in 1938 until he made his first attempt, called Z1, which was a binary mechanical calculator operated with electricity and limited programmability. He read instructions from a punched tape. The Z1 never performed well due to lack of sufficient mechanical precision. The Z1 and its original plans were destroyed during World War II. His most notable achievement was finishing...
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