1896 (December 3) Herman Hollerith organizes the Tabulating Machine Company (TMC) with an initial capitalization of $100,000, made up of 1,000 shares of common stock with a par value of $100. Hollerith became general manager and held 502 shares. In 1911, he sells the company and it merges with others to eventually become the International Business Machines Corporation (IBM).

Konrad Zuse, a brilliant engineer and computer pioneer, was born in Berlin, Germany in 1910. He received his construction engineering degree from the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg in 1935. Dr. Zuse's Z3 COMPUTER, designed and built from 1938 to 1941, was the first automatic, program-controlled, fully functional, general purpose digital computer.

 

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