Some Computer Pioneers

Aiken

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aiken.html

Atanasoff

http://www.cs.iastate.edu/jva/jva-archive.shtml

http://www.library.upenn.edu/special/gallery/mauchly/jwm7.html

Babbage

http://www.cbi.umn.edu/index.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Babbage.html

Bush, Vannevar

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/computer/bushf.htm

http://www.isg.sfu.ca/~duchier/misc/vbush/

http://www.iath.virginia.edu/elab/hfl0034.html

http://web.mit.edu/sts001/www/Team8/case3.htm

Copernicus (side story--need for computers)

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/retrograde/copernican.html

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Copernicus.html

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Things/copernican_system.html

Eckert

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Eckert_John.html

Galileo (side story--need for computers)

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Galileo.html

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/

http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo/Student_Work/Astronomy96/

http://galileo.imss.firenze.it/museo/b/egalilg.html

Hollerith

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hollerith.html

http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/57.html

http://www.history.rochester.edu/steam/hollerith/

Hopper

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Hopper.html

Jacquard

http://www.comptons.com/encyclopedia/ARTICLES/0075/00951296_A.html

Leibniz

http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Leibniz.html

http://www.dotpoint.com/xnumber/pic_reckoner.htm

http://www.maxmon.com/1670ad.htm

Mauchly

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Mauchly.html

Lovelace

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Lovelace.html

http://www.scottlan.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm

http://www.well.com/user/adatoole/bio.htm

Pascal

http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Pascal.html

http://www.eingang.org/Lecture/pascaline.html

http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~greg/calculators/pascal/Pascaline's_Gallery.htm

Stibitz

http://www.home.gil.com.au/~bredshaw/stibitz.htm

http://www.invent.org/book/book-text/100.html

http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/Stibitz.html