Atanasoff: Father of the Computer

Significant inventions tend to make their creators famous. Most people know who invented the telephone. The light bulb. The airplane. But what about the digital computer? Who invented one of the most significant devices in human history? Atanasoff, Father of the Computer, explores the life and career of John Vincent Atanasoff, physicist and inventor, who invented the first electronic digital computer in the 1930s at Iowa State College.