FUNDAMENTALS OF COMPUTER

Detailed explanation-1: -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.

Detailed explanation-2: -Though the ENIAC patent was invalidated by the U.S. District Court in Minnesota, Eckert and Mauchly have nonetheless been credited by history with inventing the ENIAC, the world’s first large-scale general purpose electronic computer.

Detailed explanation-3: -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.

Detailed explanation-4: -J. Presper Eckert was co-inventor of ENIAC, introduced to the public at the University of Pennsylvania in 1946. ENIAC was considered a computer marvel, containing over 17, 000 vacuum tubes and weighing over 30 tons.