September 2011
3 posts
mauchly: the computer and the skateboard
A video biography on John Mauchly, inventor of the computer and the skateboard.
John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert were the inventors of ENIAC, widely considered the first electronic computer. With its grand unveiling in l946, that large, blinking contraption set the public’s imagination reeling like never before —would this machine really be able to take over human tasks? Would there...
