Konrad Zuse
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Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional progra
Konrad Zuse in 1992
Zuse Z1 replica in the German Museum of Technology in Berlin
Plaque commemorating Zuse's work, attached to the ruin of Methfesselstraße 7, Berlin
Statue of Zuse in Bad Hersfeld
Z4 (computer)
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The Z4 was arguably the world's first commercial digital computer, and is the oldest surviving programmable computer. It was designed, and manufactured by early computer scientist Konrad Zuse's compan
Konrad Zuse
…for the S2 computing machine, considered the first process control computer. In 1941, he founded one of the earliest computer businesses, producing the Z4, which became the world's first commercial computer. From 1943 to 1945 he designed Plankalkül, the first high-level programming language. In 1969, Zuse…
Z4 on display at the Deutsches Museum, Munich
Electromagnetic relay of the Z4