Abraham Stern (inventor)

Abraham Stern (c.1760s–1842) was a Polish Jewish inventor from Warsaw. He is best known for his mechanical calculators.[1][2] He was a member of the Warsaw Society of Friends of Learning from 1830.

Portrait of Abraham Stern
by Antoni Blank (1823)

Abraham Stern demonstrating one of his calculating machines in Warsaw (at public sittings of the Friends of Sciences Society, Stern's Jewish clothes among black tailcoats worn by his colleagues always puzzled people who were not aware who he was), b. 1830

He was also a known opponent of Hasidic Judaism.[3]

Stern is buried in the Bródno Jewish Cemetery in Warsaw.

References

Herman H. Goldstine (2 September 2008). The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4008-2013-9.
Ioan Mackenzie James (2009). Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists. Peter Lang. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-1-906165-22-2.
Glenn Dynner (30 December 2008). Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-538265-5.

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[1] Herman H. Goldstine (2 September 2008). The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. Princeton University Press. p. 8. ISBN 978-1-4008-2013-9.

[James2009-2] Ioan Mackenzie James (2009). Driven to Innovate: A Century of Jewish Mathematicians and Physicists. Peter Lang. pp. 55–56. ISBN 978-1-906165-22-2.

[3] Glenn Dynner (30 December 2008). Men of Silk: The Hasidic Conquest of Polish Jewish Society. Oxford University Press. p. 216. ISBN 978-0-19-538265-5.