Computer Science

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  Den ersten Computer der Welt entwickelte der 26-jährige Bauingenieur Zuse im elterlichen Wohnzimmer in Berlin-Kreuzberg, um ihm lästige statische Berechnungen zu automatisieren. – Zwei Frauen und ein Mann beugen sich über eine große Glasvitrine, in der das mechanische Rechenwerk der Z1 zu sehen ist.

• In Audiostationen erzählen ehemalige Mitarbeiter der Zuse KG von Entwicklung und Verkauf einer der ersten Computerfirmen der Welt. – Blick in die Informatik-Ausstellung: Eine Frau sitzt auf einem Podest und hält sich den Hörer einer Hörstation ans Ohr. Eine andere Frau steht neben ihr und liest in einem großen Heft. In wandhohen Vitrinen im Hintergrund sind historische Rechenmaschinen zu sehen. Von der Decke hängt der Schriftzug „Die Zuse KG“.

• Der erste Computer der Welt: Konrad Zuses Z1. – Nahaufnahme der Z1, mechanische Schaltglieder des historischen Rechners.

The first computer was not built in a garage in California's Silicon Valley, but in a living room in Berlin-Kreuzberg. In the exhibition you will learn exciting stories about the creation of the first computers and more about the life and work of computer pioneer Konrad Zuse.

The focus of the exhibition is the first computer, the Z1. In 1935, the then 25-year-old Berlin engineer Konrad Zuse began to tinker with a calculating machine that would perform all boring and complicated computing tasks independently and fully automatically.

By 1938, Konrad Zuse had completed his Z1, the computer was freely programmable and controlled mechanical switching elements that pushed metal pins into two different positions - position "0" and position "1". This binary principle still forms the basis of every computer today. But Zuse's machines also played an active role in the destructive Second World War - for example, in calculating the wing design of glide bombs. The Z1 was destroyed in the Second World War - which is why Konrad Zuse rebuilt his pioneering computer for the German Museum of Technology in 1989. Today, visitors can see this fascinating testimony to the history of technology in the exhibition and retrace the path from the binary mechanical switching elements to today's computer use.

Runtime: from January 2000

Price info: Admission is free for those under 18 and up to the completion of regular schooling.

Price: €8.00

Reduced price: €4.00

Reduced price info: Discounts are available to the following, with appropriate proof:

Students

Unemployed persons

Severely disabled persons (from 50%)

Recipients of social welfare

Recipients of benefits under the Asylum Seekers' Benefits Act (Asylbewerberleistungsgesetz)

Federal volunteers and those doing voluntary military service

Berliners with the berlinpass and berlinpass-BuT

Groups from institutions for the disabled

Takes place here:

• Deutsches Technikmuseum Berlin