DIGITAL ELECTRONIC COMPUTER(1941)

ZUSE BUILD THE ELECTROMACHINICAL COMPUER

     Zuse  is considered the inventor of the first digital, programmable computers accomplished in 1938, long before anyone else, anywhere in the world. Zuse was born in Deutsch-Wilmersdorf, Berlin, on 22 ,June, 1910.

   
     The two world war led to breakthroughs in all areas of science and technology .it was not, however, an easy time to get independently funded invention off the ground, as German civil engineer Konrad Zuse (1910-1995) discovered

   One of Zuse main motivation to create a computer was to make life easier for his fellow engineers and scientist. He had passionate distaste for performing the long time consuming calculation that his profession was often called upon to make. It was during the time that was studying as a civil engineer that he began to wish for a machine that would take care of these irksome problems for him.

  In 1936 Zuse invented the Z1, electromechanical binary computer, but it was completely obliterated world war II bombing that left no trace of it or its blueprints behind.Z1 was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched celluloid film.

  Work on the Z2 was difficult because the War Make it impossible for Zuse to work with other computer engineers from Britain or the United States, but he still managed to complete it in 1940. The Z3, a more sophisticated version of Z2, was finished in 1941, partially funded by contributions from the DVL (The German experimentation institution of aviation).  Although the original Z3 was destroyed, a working reconstruction was made 1960. It is on payment display the Deutsches Museum, Munich.It was first fully functional program controlled electromechanical digital computer in the world. Sadly this too was destroyed in the war, but greater care was taken with the Z4, which was moved country to country to ensure its survival

   Zuse inspect a replica of the Z1, his first computer, in the museum of transport and technology, Berlin