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George Stibitz
Relay-based computer circuitry pioneer
George Robert Stibitz (April 30, 1904 – January 31, 1995) was an American researcher at Bell Labs who is internationally recognized as one of the fathers of the modern digital computer. He was known for his work in the 1930s and 1940s on the realization of Boolean logic digital circuits using electromechanical relays as the switching element.
Stibitz was born in York, Pennsylvania, the son of Mildred Murphy, a math teacher, and George Stibitz, a German Reformed minister and theology professor. Throughout his childhood, Stibitz enjoyed assembling devices and systems, working with material… More on Wikipedia →
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Model K (calculator)
The Model K was an early 1-bit electromechanical binary adder built in November 1937 by Bell Labs scientist George Stibitz as a proof of concept, using scrap relays and m…