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2012 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Hungarian Scientists in Information Technology
verfasst von : Győző Kovács
Erschienen in: Reflections on the History of Computing
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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Studying Information Technology, the History of Science and Technology was very rich in Hungarian talents; those who designed ‘clever’ machines at the very early times of calculators. These calculators are the ancestors of the present-time ones that were called later on, in the 20
th
century, computers. The computer historians may agree or disagree, but I think the first real-life, early ‘calculator-like’ machine was developed by
Farkas Kempelen
in the 18
th
century. It was a real output device, a talking machine. Its input was an organ, a music instrument keyboard and the operator of the machine could enter the text and the output of the operation was a human-like speech.
I start the row of the Hungarian inventors with Kempelen and I finish it in the 20
th
century with a talented mechanical engineer:
Marcell Jánosi
, who designed and patented the world’s first floppy disk. Among the thirteen Hungarian inventors are engineers, mathematicians, priests etc. all developed machines for the information technology.