COMPUTER HISTORY AND EVOLUTION
DEVELOPMENT OF COMPUTERS
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Howard Aiken
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Lord Kelvin
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Vannera Bush
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John Mauchly
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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. Mauchly was born August 30, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio.
Detailed explanation-2: -Eckert and Mauchly and the other ENIAC designers were joined by John von Neumann in a consulting role; von Neumann summarized and discussed logical design developments in the 1945 First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. A contract to build the new computer was signed in April 1946 with an initial budget of US$100, 000.
Detailed explanation-3: -ENIAC was designed by Ursinus College physics professor John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert of the University of Pennsylvania, U.S. The team of design engineers assisting the development included Robert F.