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Jul 31, 2023 · John William Mauchly was born on 30 August 1907, in Cincinnati, Ohio, to the family of Sebastian J. and Rachel Scheidemantel Mauchly. His father, Sebastian Mauchly, was a high-school science teacher, who went on to receive his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Cincinnati. When John Mauchly was eight (8), his father received an appointment ...
ENIAC, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States and completed in 1946. The project was led by John Mauchly, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and their colleagues. ENIAC was the most powerful calculating device built to that time.
John William Mauchly. Born August 30, 1907, Cincinnati, Ohio; died January 8, 1980, Abington, Pa.; the New York Times obituary (Smolowe 1980) described Mauchly as a "co-inventor of the first electronic computer" but his accomplishments went far beyond that simple description. Education: physics, Johns Hopkins University, 1929; PhD, physics ...
John Mauchly co-invented the first practical electronic digital computer. ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, was initially meant to compute World War II ballistic firing tables. Housed at the University of Pennsylvania, then moved to the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland, ENIAC could calculate in 30 seconds ...
John William Mauchly (30 August 1907–8 January 1980) was an American physicist who, along with J. Presper Eckert, designed ENIAC, the first general purpose electronic digital computer, as well as EDVAC, BINAC and UNIVAC I, the first commercial computer made in the United States. Together they started the first computer company, the Eckert ...
J ohn W. Mauchly was a pioneer of modern computing. In the 1940s Mauchly headed the project that produced the ENIAC, the world's first general purpose electronic digital computer. He also co-founded the nation's first commercial computer manufacturer. John William Mauchly was in born on August 30, 1907, in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Mar 28, 2024 · John William Mauchly was born on August 30, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio to Sebastian and Rachel (Scheidermantel) Mauchly. His father was a respected physicist who earned his PhD from the University of Cincinnati and later became the chief physicist at the Carnegie Institution‘s Department of Terrestrial Magnetism in Washington, D.C.
