[22], These machines contributed to the Henschel Werke Hs 293 and Hs 294 guided missiles developed by the German military between 1941 and 1945, which were the precursors to the modern cruise missile. Early Life. [23] This event effectively brought Zuse's research and development to a complete halt. An array is a collection of identically typed data items distinguished by their indices or "subscripts,” such as A[i,j,k], in which A is the array name and i, j, and k are the indices. In: Der Tagesspiegel Nr. The Deutsches Technikmuseum in Berlin has an exhibition devoted to Zuse, displaying twelve of his machines, including a replica of the Z1 and several of Zuse's paintings. The Z4 had a mechanical memory with a capacity of 1,024 words and several card readers. In the extreme privation of post-war Germany Zuse was unable to build computers. Why Did Charles Babbage Invent the Computer? The 100th anniversary of his birth was celebrated by exhibitions, lectures and workshops.[44][45]. Zuse died on 18 December 1995 in Hünfeld, Hesse (near Fulda) from heart failure. He used it to explore several groundbreaking technologies in calculator development: floating-point arithmetic, high-capacity memory, and modules or relays operating on the yes/no principle. On 30 January 1944, the Z1 and its original blueprints were destroyed with his parents' flat and many neighbouring buildings by a British air raid in World War II. This was the first binary computer. Some argue that he, not Turing or Zuse, is the true father of the modern computer. Zuse was born in 1910 in Berlin. He wrote the world's first chess-playing program using Plankalkül. He would show the computer to the mathematician Eduard Stiefel of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH) Zürich) who then ordered one in 1950. Wilhelm Exner Medal. The computer was sold to Eduard Stiefel, a mathematician of the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, on July 12, 1950. Konrad Zuse has considered the inventor of the modern computer. Zuse completed the Z2, the first fully functioning electro-mechanical computer in 1939, and the Z3 in 1941. Verlag Neues Leben, Berlin 2000. Konrad Zuses Z1 – Berlin 1936. He completed and installed the Z4 in the Applied Mathematics Division of Zurich's Federal Polytechnical Institute, where it remained in use until 1955. Konrad Zuse (June 22, 1910–December 18, 1995) earned the semi-official title of "inventor of the modern computer" for his series of automatic calculators, which he invented to help with his lengthy engineering calculations. Zuse conceptualized and created a purely mechanical, extensible, modular tower automaton he named "helix tower" ("Helixturm"). It was not until 1949 that Zuse was able to resume work on the Z4. Hasso Spode, "Der Computer – eine Erfindung aus Kreuzberg, Methfesselstraße 10/Oranienstraße 6", in: Kathrin Chod, Herbert Schwenk and Hainer Weißpflug. It was the world's first electronic, fully programmable digital computer based on a binary floating-point number and a switching system. Meanwhile, in Germany, engineer Konrad Zuse had been thinking about calculating machines. TU Chemnitz 2006. [33] Other plotters designed by Zuse include the ZUSE Z90 and ZUSE Z9004. A replica of the Z3, as well as the original Z4, is in the Deutsches Museum in Munich. Museum für Verkehr und Technik, Berlin 1989. [citation needed], He enrolled in the Technische Hochschule Berlin (now Technical University of Berlin) and explored both engineering and architecture, but found them boring. Jürgen Alex, Hermann Flessner, Wilhelm Mons, Horst Zuse: Konrad Zuse: Der Vater des Computers. Reihe Informatik und Operations Research, S. Toeche-Mittler Verlag, Darmstadt 1979, Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich, "Weapons Grade: How Modern Warfare Gave Birth To Our High-Tech World", "Mathematicians during the Third Reich and World War II", "Kapitel 14: Die ersten programmierbaren Rechner", "Kreuzberger Chronik: Bomber über Kreuzberg – Sie lesen das Original!