Researching Thomas Whitney
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 | Did you know that in the 1881 UK census there were 1555 people with the Whitney surname? In that year Whitney was ranked number 2125 for popularity in the UK. |
The name Thomas means "a twin" and is of Hebrew origin.
Records of Thomas Whitney on Ancestry
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Birth, Death and Marriage Records for Thomas Whitney and the Whitney Family Tree
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| Did you know that there are currently 2186 people with the Whitney surname in the UK? Whitney is now ranked number 2233 for popularity in the UK. |
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| Did you know that there are currently 45574 people with the Whitney surname in the USA? Whitney is ranked number 142 for popularity in the USA. |
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Thomas Whitney (computing)
Thomas M. (Tom) Whitney (January 7, 1939 - November 1986) is best known as an inventor of the pocket calculator and an early employee of Apple Computer.
He joined Hewlett-Packard in 1967, where he helped develop the HP-35, the world's first handheld scientific electronic calculator. During the HP years, he was also a lecturer at Santa Clara University.
He later joined Apple as employee 15 and in 1978 became executive vice president of engineering, working directly with Steve Jobs and Jef Raskin on the Macintosh project.
Whitney completed BS (1961), MS (1962) and PhD (1964) degrees in electrical engineering at Iowa State University, where he was a member of Acacia fraternity. He graduated from Aurelia High School in Aurelia, Iowa in 1957.
Whitney died in 1986 at age 47.
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