Historical Marker
Mt. Pisgah
Historical marker location:
Thayer, Iowa
( Marker is on Mt. Pisgah Road, on the right when traveling south.)
Marker installed: 1923
1846.
The first electronic digital computer was built at Iowa State University in the 1930s. The machine, called the Atanasoff-Berry Computer, was invented by John Atanasoff and his graduate student, Clifford Berry.