Edmund Barbour

Updated: 09/15/2017 by Computer Hope
Edmund Barbour

Name: Edmund Dana Barbour

Born: 1841

Death: 1925 (Age: 84)

Computer-related contributions

  • Boston businessman (merchant), philanthropist, genealogist, and inventor.
  • First representative of so called direct-multiplication devices (calculator).
  • One of the first people (after Müller and Babbage), who designed a printing mechanism for his mechanical calculator.