Oh yes. The land of farmers and brilliant scientists.
*America's first satellite carried instruments designed at the University of Iowa.
*Jerold Mathews, an Iowa State Univeristy math teacher, helped Hewlett-Packard develop calculators.
*Iowa State University's John Vincent Atanasoff and assistant Clifford Berry built the world's first electronic digital computer in 1939; Eniac, the first general-purpose computer, was not created till the 1940s.
Of course, we've come a long way. . . Did you know that the computing power of these first models is now surpassed by a digital wristwatch?
--from notes scribbled down at the State Historical Society Museum in Des Moines
2 comments:
And what is so very sinister, is that, when most people think of Iowa, they think of harmless fields of corn and soybeans.
Exactly. It's so much more fun that way!
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