science · 28 June 1974 · 50 years ago
death
Died 28 Jun 1974 at age 84 (born 11 Mar 1890).
American electrical engineer who oversaw government mobilization of scientific research during World War II. At the age of 35, in 1925, he developed the differential analyzer, the world's first analog computer. It was capable of solving differential equations. He put into concrete form that which began 50 years earlier with the incomplete efforts of Charles Babbage, and the theoretical details developed by Lord Kelvin. This machine filled a 20 x 30 foot room. He innovated one of the largest growing media in our time, namely hypermedia as fulfilled in the Internet with hypertext links.
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