1st floor: From Cuneiform to Computers

The exhibition rooms begin on the first floor. Three parallel displays chart the development of the cultural technologies of calculating, writing, and drawing up through the invention of the first computer. The display ring around the perimeter of the room is dedicated to the history of technological innovations and their transformation into industrial products. It is divided into the three areas "Numbers, Symbols and Signals", "Mechanization of the Information Technology" and "The Invention of the Computer".
 
On the outer edge of the ring, reconstructions of offices and accounting departments from various eras show the practical applications of calculating and writing using the technical tools of the time.

In the middle of the room, the biographical section of the exhibition unfolds against the background of a historical-cultural collage. Fifteen men are introduced in chronological order, men who influenced information technology and helped it spread throughout society with the breadth of their inventions and their business sense.