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John Mauchly and Presper Eckert designed and built the first digital, electronic computer. The story of their three-year race to create the legendary ENIAC and their three-decade struggle to gain credit for it has never been told and is a compelling tale of brilliance and misfortune. Mauchly and Eckert met by chance in 1941 at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Engineering. They soon developed a revolutionary vision: to use electricity as a means of computing - in other words, to make electricity "think." Ignored by their colleagues, in early 1943 they were fortuitously…
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Editions
4 editions- Audiobook · English · 2000Blackstone Audiobooks · 9780786116331
- Hardcover · English · 1999ENIAC, the triumphs and tragedies of the world's first computerWalker · 262 pages · 9780802713483
- Other · English · 2018Blackstone on Brilliance Audio · 9781721310753
- Other · English · 2001Berkley Trade · 262 pages · 9780425176443
HistoryENIAC (Computer)Electronic digital computersComputer industryComputersGeschiedenis (vorm)Computers, history
