ENIAC

1. What did the Babylonians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans, Islamic, and Chinese contribute to mathematics? Babylonian: The base 60 system that is still used today in the division of hours into minutes and seconds. They left clay tables that contained tables of multiplication, division, squares cubes, and square roots, and the measurement of area and length. All of these allowed the solution of linear and quadratic equation to be determined. They knew the Pythagoras Theory before invented and made

The ENIAC was invented by John Mauchly and J.Presper Eckert, Jr.and built from 1943-1945. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Calculator), often referred to as the first computer, was built to supply the need for faster calculations. It started the information age and led to the development of the first commercial computers (The ENIAC). The machines and processes designed during the 1940’s had adverse consequences

American society. The first digital computer Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, better known as the “ENIAC”, began construction in 1943 and completed construction in 1946 at the University of Pennsylvania. The “ENIAC” was built to serve as a calculating device. The creation of the “ENIAC” prompted another invention in the field of technology. Following the invention of the “ENIAC”, the Cold War began. The Cold War made American military strategists and political figures paranoid of the idea

ENIAC contained 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7200 crystal diodes, 1500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors and approximately 5,000,000 hand-soldered joints. It weighed more than 30 short tons (27 t), was roughly 2.4m × 0.9m × 30m (8 × 3 × 100 feet) in size, occupied 167m2 (1800 ft2) and consumed 150 kW of electricity (“Computer,” 2015). This computer can calculate more than 5000 simple addition or subtraction operations in one second. It means ENIAC was better than last generation

Over time, computers have evolved tremendously due to inventors working with different devices. Even before history was recoded, people used handheld counting and computing aids. Today, with our modern technology, people use computers called laptops and even other handheld devices such as IPads and even a cell phone. Over history, computers have evolved in order to fulfill the needs of today’s society and better serve people. My paper will explore the creation and usage of each device, beginning

10) In 1945, the world’s first fully electronic computer was completed at the University of Pennsylvania. It was called ENIAC-Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. It occupied 1,500 sq. ft of floor space and weighted over 30 tons. Its 18,000 thermionic valves consumed 150 kW of electric power. ENIAC was capable of 5,000 additions a second. (The Inventions, pg.258) ENIAC marked a stage in man’s technological evolution. In 1948, the transistor was invented. The transistor replaced thermionic

Computers in the 1950 's People have been in awe of computers since they were first invented. At first scientist said that computers would only be for government usage only. "Then when the scientists saw the potential computers had, scientist then predicted that by 1990 computers may one day invade the home of just about ever citizen in the world" ("History" Internet), the scientists were slightly wrong, because by 1990 computers were just beginning to catch on. Then a few years later when scientists

This book was published in 1985 and is still relevant and popular 31 years later. Nobody thought the ENIAC, the first computer, was the size of an entire room. 29 years after the ENIAC, the first personal, desktop computer was made. This proves that boundaries are meant to be broken and even when something seems impossible, it may just be a few years down the road. Ender’s Game really captures

became known as ENIAC, for Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator. It could multiply two numbers at the rate of 300 products per second, by finding the value of each product from a multiplication table stored in its memory. ENIAC was thus about 1,000 times faster than the previous generation of computers. It used 18,000 standard vacuum tubes, occupied 1800 square feet of floor space, used about 180,000 watts of electricity, and used punch card input and output. The ENIAC was very difficult

The History of Computers Whether you know it or not you depend on computers for almost every thing you do in modern day life. From the second you get up in the morning to the second you go to sleep computer are tied into what you do and use in some way. It is tied in to you life in the most obvious and obscure ways. Take for example you wake up in the morning usually to a digital alarm clock. You start you car it uses computers the second you turn the key (General Motors is the largest buyers