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ENIAC Public Unveiling

The public unveiling of ENIAC, the world's first general-purpose electronic computer, as scientists, military officials, and journalists witness its groundbreaking capabilities in a basement room at t

Year 1946
Date 2/14
Location Moore School Of Electrical Engineering, Philadelphia, United States
Layer 2
Visibility HIDDEN
tax:foundational-computing-hardware

Key Figures

John Mauchly J. Presper Eckert Military Colonel Herman Goldstine Journalist
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 239 linked moments

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ENIAC Public Demonstration
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · same location
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ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · same location
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Dedication of the ENIAC
1946 · same location
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ENIAC Public Demonstration
1946 · same figure
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ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · same figure
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Dedication of the ENIAC
1946 · same figure
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ENIAC Unveiling
1946 · same figure
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · same figure
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Chicago Pile-1 Criticality
1942 · same era
C
Chicago Pile-1 Criticality
1942 · precedes
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First Silicon Transistor Developed
1954 · same era
F
First Silicon Transistor Developed
1954 · follows
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Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 · same era
A
Attack on Pearl Harbor
1941 · precedes
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Chicago Pile-1 first criticality
1942 · same era
C
Chicago Pile-1 first criticality
1942 · precedes
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Dartmouth Workshop
1956 · same era
D
Dartmouth Workshop
1956 · follows
Invention of the Transistor
Invention of the Transistor
1947 · 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
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
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ENIAC Public Demonstration
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Unveiled
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Public Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
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First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same era
C
Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · same era
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Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1955 · same era
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Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
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Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · same era
D
Demonstration of the Logic Theorist Program
1956 · same era
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Invention of the Transistor
1947 · same era