Konrad Zuse, 85, whose Nazi-era constructions of second-hand sheet metal, glass plates, cranks and punch cards helped pioneer the modern digital computer, died of heart failure Monday in Berlin. Mr.

The inventor of the computer was a little known German engineer named Konrad Zuse, according to a new museum exhibition that seeks to revive the unsung hero’s notoriety. Six museums around the country ...

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For decades a secreted away, early digital computer from Nazi-era Germany has long sat dormant within Munich's Deutsches Museum, its operations largely a mystery to historians who required a missing ...

Computers expressing everything with just '0 and 1' got deeply into people's lives and now became an unthinkable society such as a computerless life, but the original machine was made only for 75 ...

Almost 70 years after the invention of the world’s first programmable, fully automatic computer, the son of electronics pioneer Konrad Zuse unveiled on Saturday an exact replica of his father’s ...

Go to updated and illustrated post. 1941: German engineer Konrad Zuse unveils the Z3, now generally recognized as the first fully functional, programmable computer. Because Zuse designed and built his ...

Zuse Z4 is considered the oldest preserved computer in the world. Built in 1945, the room-sized machine runs on magnetic tapes and needs several people to operate it. Currently, it is housed at the ...

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