1948: Electronics

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In the February 1948 number of Electrical Engineering, J. G. Brainerd and T. K. Sharpless of the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania described the Eniac (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), which is the first high-speed, large-scale electronic... ...