| Short for Electronic
Numerical Integrator And Calculator, the ENIAC was
invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the
University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943
and was not completed until 1946.
It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes,
weighing almost 50 tons. While not completed until the end of the
World War II,
the ENIAC was created to help with the war efforts against German forces.
To the right is a public-domain
U.S. Army Photo of the EDVAC, from K. Kempf. and the
History of
Computing. The ENIAC is
now being displayed at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C. |
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- See document CH000984
for additional information about when the first computer was
invented.
Also see: Computer
History page, CSIRAC,
EDVAV, UNIVAC
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