George Julius

Pioneer Australian technologist

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Possibly the first Australasian adventure into computing devices was by the English born George Julius (1873-1947) who invented the Automatic Totaliser - a complex electro-mechanical calculator.

Julius electro-mechanical adder (Brian Conlon photo)

Doron Swade wrote:
The Julius totalisator with its automatic odds machine is the earliest on-line, real-time, data processing and computation system that the curators at the Science Museum have identified so far.

The subject is excellently covered by Brian Conlon.

George Julius (1873-1947)
(CSIRO photo)