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Mechanical Brains:

American History Museum

Mechanical Brains: An entirely new class of high-speed automatic computing machines, with rudimentary organs of memory, judgment, and mathematical logic, points to the second industrial revolution By Louis N. Ridenour. Reprinted from Fortune Magazine. Copyright 1949 TIME Inc. (4 pages, including title page photographs: plugboards of ENIAC, A Mercury Memory Organ).
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Object Details

Collection Creator

Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

Collection Citation

Grace Murray Hopper Collection, 1944-1965, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Scope and Contents

An entirely new class of high-speed automatic computing machines, with rudimentary organs of memory, judgment, and mathematical logic, points to the second industrial revolution By Louis N. Ridenour. Reprinted from Fortune Magazine. Copyright 1949 TIME Inc. (4 pages, including title page photographs: plugboards of ENIAC, A Mercury Memory Organ).
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GUID

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Grace Murray Hopper Collection
Grace Murray Hopper Collection / Series 5: Eckert-Mauchly Corporation

Date

1949

Container

Box 4, Folder 5

Archival Repository

Archives Center, National Museum of American History

Type

Archival materials

Collection Rights

Collection items available for reproduction, but the Archives Center makes no guarantees concerning copyright restrictions. Other intellectual property rights may apply. Archives Center cost-recovery and use fees may apply when requesting reproductions.

Collection Restrictions

Collection is open for research.
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Record ID

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