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Charles Purpura 1897 - 1983

Charles Purpura of Thornton, Cook County, Illinois was born on January 14, 1897, and died at age 86 years old in January 1983.

Charles Purpura

Thornton, Cook County, Illinois 60476

January 14, 1897

January 1983

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Charles Purpura lived 11 years longer than the average family member when died at the age of 85.

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In 1897, in the year that Charles Purpura was born, in the January 22nd issue of "Engineering", the word "computer" was first used to refer to a mechanical calculation device. Previously - since the 17th century - the term computer meant "one who computes" and referred to human beings who worked with numbers.

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In 1918, he was 21 years old when on November 1, an elevated train on the Brooklyn line of the subway - driven by an inexperienced operator because of a strike - tried to navigate a turn at 30mph. The limit on the curve was 6 mph. The 2nd and 3rd cars of the 5 car wooden train were badly damaged and at least 93 people were killed, making it the deadliest crash in New York subway history.

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