A Calculating machine
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A Calculating machine
A front cover of The Illustrated London News, 1949, reporting on the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University. Pictured is the the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left), and Professor F. C. Williams, inventor of the memory storage system (right). Williams became Professor Electrical Engineering at Manchester in 1946 is chiefly known for his development of the Williams tube, the first successful electrostatic random access memory for the digital computer. This enabled him, along with Kilburn, to operate the worlds first stored-program computer in June 1948. Date: June 25th 1949
Media ID 14147716
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
1949 Automatic Calculating Cathode Control Controlled Inventor Kilburn Manchester Memory Monitor Panel Professor Sequence Storage Tube University Williams
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