Presentation of the Z3 Computer

Date: May 12, 1941 • Location: Berlin, Germany

Konrad Zuse presents the Z3, the world's first working programmable, fully automatic computer, in Berlin.

Konrad Ernst Otto Zuse was a German civil engineer, pioneering computer scientist, inventor and businessman. His greatest achievement was the world's first programmable computer; the functional program-controlled Turing-complete Z3 became operational in May 1941. Thanks to this machine and its predecessors, Zuse is regarded by some as the inventor and father of the modern computer.