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• NAME: Howard H. Aiken
• OCCUPATION: Inventor, Physicist
• BIRTH DATE: March 09, 1900
• DEATH DATE: March 14, 1973
• EDUCATION: University of Wisconsin-Madison, Harvard University

• PLACE OF BIRTH: Hoboken, New Jersey
• PLACE OF DEATH: St. Louis, Missouri

 

 

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Born in Hoboken, NJ in 1900, Howard H. Aiken was a U.S. mathematician and inventor who, with three other engineers, developed the first automatic calculating machine. The machine was called the Harvard Mark I and could perform five operations: add, subtract, multiple, divide, and reference previous result. This incredible 1944 invention was 51 feet long, 8 feet high, and weighed 35 tons.