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John William Mauchly (August 30, 1907 – January 8, 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.
John Mauchly, American physicist and engineer who was coinventor in 1946, with John P. Eckert, of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic computer. The two men also developed the Binary Automatic Computer. Learn more about Mauchly’s life and career.
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Apr 3, 2017 · Electrical engineer John Mauchly is best known for co-inventing, alongside John Presper Eckert, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, known as ENIAC. The team later co-invented the first commercial (for sale to consumers) digital electronic computer, called the UNIVAC .
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John William Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert are the scientists credited with the invention of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the first general-purpose electronic digital computer completed in 1946. Mauchly was born August 30, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
May 3, 2024 · 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.
Mar 28, 2024 · Foremost among those pioneers was Dr. John W. Mauchly, the brilliant physicist and inventor best known as the co-creator of the ENIAC, the world‘s first general-purpose electronic digital computer. But Mauchly‘s groundbreaking accomplishments didn‘t spring out of a vacuum.
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.
