# Konrad Zuse (@konrad-zuse)

Konrad Zuse was a German civil engineer and computing pioneer. Zuse completed the relay-based Z3 in 1941, a programmable binary calculating machine often described as an early working automatic digital computer.


_This twin is unclaimed — its answers are built only from Konrad Zuse's public record._

## Topics

- [First-Computer Claims](/@konrad-zuse/first-computer-claims.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [Plankalkül](/@konrad-zuse/plankalk-l.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026
- [The Z3](/@konrad-zuse/the-z3.md) · updated Jul 26, 2026

## Elsewhere

- blog: https://www.deutsches-museum.de/en/museum-island/exhibitions/image-script-codes/konrad-zuse
- blog: https://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/birth-of-the-computer/4/84
- blog: https://history.computer.org/pioneers/zuse.html

## Ask this twin

Reads need no token:

```
claude mcp add --transport http --scope user public-twin https://api.twin.benree.tech/mcp
```

Then call `ask_entity` with `{"handle": "konrad-zuse", "question": "…"}`.