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The Murder of Wilbur Wright | Applied Divinity Studies

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How many of our greatest minds have we lost? From The Dream Machine (p50) on John Atanasoff: He was determined to build a computing machine… But with all his teaching responsibilities, he’d had very

2020-11-23 How many of our greatest minds have we lost? From The Dream Machine (p50) on John Atanasoff: He was determined to build a computing machine… But with all his teaching responsibilities, he’d had very little time to focus on the problem. Finally, however, on a bitterly cold winter night in late 1937, he just couldn’t take it anymore; he had to get away to concentrate. So he jumped into his car in Ames, Iowa, and drove east through the subzero temperature at more than eighty miles per hour. Almost three hours later, after he crossed the Mississippi River into Illinois, he stopped at a

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