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ENIAC Public Dedication

Engineers John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert, alongside military officials, publicly unveil the ENIAC—the world's first general-purpose electronic computer—to the press and dignitaries at the Universi

Year 1946
Date 2/15
Location Moore School Of Electrical Engineering, Philadelphia, United States
Layer 2
Visibility PUBLIC
tax:foundational-computing-hardware

Key Figures

John Mauchly J. Presper Eckert Military Official Press Photographer
Time Travel

Causal neighbors · 429 linked moments

ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
1946 · contemporaneous
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Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
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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
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
ENIAC Dedication Ceremony
1946 · contemporaneous
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ENIAC Unveiling
1946 · contemporaneous
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Dedication of the ENIAC
1946 · contemporaneous
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Dedication of the ENIAC computer
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
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First Silicon Transistor Demonstration
1954 · same era
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Completion of TRADIC, the First Transistor Computer
1954 · same era
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First point-contact transistor invention
1947 · same era
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Proposal for the Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1955 · same era
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Publication of Claude Shannon's 'A Mathematical Theory of Communication'
1948 · same era
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Harvard Mark I Operational
1944 · same era
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ENIAC First Program Run
1945 · same era
Attack on Pearl Harbor
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1941 · same era
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Dartmouth Conference on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
D
Dartmouth Workshop (Birth of AI)
1956 · same era
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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
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Delivery of the first UNIVAC I to the United States Census Bureau
1951 · same era
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First silicon transistor demonstration
1954 · same era
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Invention of the Point-Contact Transistor
1947 · same era
I
Invention of the Junction Transistor
1948 · same era
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United Nations Charter Signing
1945 · same era
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Invention of the point-contact transistor
1947 · same era
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Trinity Nuclear Test
1945 · same era
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Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
D
Demonstration of the first silicon transistor by Gordon Teal
1954 · same era
D
Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence
1956 · same era
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Invention of the Transistor
1947 · same era
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Regency TR-1 Transistor Radio Release
1954 · same era