Paramount Building

Historical marker location:

853 Central Avenue, Northwood, Iowa

( Marker is on Central Avenue (U.S. 56) east of 8th Street (U.S. 56), on the right when traveling east.)

c.1886.

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.