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ENIAC public demonstration

John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert stand before a crowded room of military brass and skeptical journalists to activate the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC). As the switches are fli

Year 1946
Date 2/14
Location Moore School Of Electrical Engineering, Philadelphia, United States
Layer 2
Visibility PUBLIC
tax:foundational-computing-hardware tax:protest-riot-and-civil-unrest

Key Figures

John Mauchly J. Presper Eckert Army Colonel Female Reporter Press Photographer Graduate Student
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 437 linked moments

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ENIAC Public Demonstration
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
E
ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · same location
E
ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · same location
E
ENIAC Public Dedication
1946 · same location
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Dedication of the ENIAC
1946 · same location
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · same location
D
Dedication of the ENIAC computer
1946 · same location
A
Adolf Hitler appointed Chancellor of Germany
1933 · same figure
United Nations Charter signing
United Nations Charter signing
1945 · same figure
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · precedes
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · same era
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
Shannon Publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication"
1948 · precedes
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ENIAC Public Demonstration
1946 · contemporaneous
E
ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
E
ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
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First point-contact transistor demonstration
1947 · same era
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Release of the Regency TR-1 transistor radio
1954 · same era
F
First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same era
C
Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · same era
F
First point-contact transistor invention
1947 · same era
P
Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1955 · same era
P
Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · same era
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Harvard Mark I Operational
1944 · same era
E
ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · same era
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 · same era
D
Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
D
Dartmouth Workshop (Birth of AI)
1956 · same era
D
Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence begins
1956 · same era
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Bombing of Pearl Harbor
1941 · same era
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Hindenburg disaster
1937 · same era
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
1946 · same era