1. France Rode was a Slovenian engineer and inventor best known for his work on the HP-35 pocket calculator.
13 Facts About France Rode
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France Rode was one of the four lead engineers at Hewlett-Packard assigned to this project.
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France Rode was born in Nozice, Slovenia on November 20,1934, to farmers father Joze and mother Pepca, born Preseren, as the oldest of four children.
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France Rode started elementary school education in nearby Homec soon after the German occupation of Slovenia during the Second World War.
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France Rode skipped the fifth grade by studying and passing exams designed for the fifth grade during the summer months.
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Whenever he had to study, France Rode was excused from farm work.
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France Rode learned hard work habits and discovered his inventive drive.
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France Rode made the slide rule he used during all his academic years in Ljubljana.
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France Rode planned to study mathematics at Ljubljana University, but altered his interest to electrical engineering after he visited the University's electrical engineering laboratories.
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France Rode felt that in this field he would be able to combine his interest in mathematics with some hands-on work.
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France Rode earned a master's degree in bio-medicine at Northwestern University in 1962.
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The engineers and the management were anxiously awaiting the arrival of the processed chip, which arose from France Rode's cutting and pasting of its layout.
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France Rode foresaw the need for a laptop-style computer and has proposed and then led to completion the development of the briefcase computer.