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MAURICE VINCENT WILKES I ARBETE MED EDSAC

Orig. bildtext... BRITISH EDSAC WILL PROVE BETTER THAN AMERICAN ENIAC. A new British invention, the electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) is now in the process of its final completion by Dr. H.V. WILKES, a Cambridge Don, in a laboratory at Cambridge. This new brain will have 25 times more knowledge than its American counterpart, the Eniac, and is composed of some 1,000 valves, 32 4ft. mercury tubes, and provide the answers to such problems as 500 ten-figure numbers, or 1,000 five-figure numbers and research into engineering, astronomical and atomic physics, and other problems too complicated for the human brain. 100,000 different calculations per minute can be completed. The picture shows Dr. H.V. WILKES with four of the mercury tubes which are the brains of the calculator. Anm. Wilkes, Maurice Vincent, f. 1913, brittisk vetenskapsman med datorer som specialitet EDSAC, en av världens första datorer med vilken de första beräkningarna gjordes 6 maj 1947 CD403 persons: MAURICE VINCENT WILKES sites: STORBRITANNIEN;CAMBRIDGE.

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MAURICE VINCENT WILKES I ARBETE MED EDSAC

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Orig. bildtext... BRITISH EDSAC WILL PROVE BETTER THAN AMERICAN ENIAC. A new British invention, the electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) is now in the process of its final completion by Dr. H.V. WILKES, a Cambridge Don, in a laboratory at Cambridge. This new brain will have 25 times more knowledge than its American counterpart, the Eniac, and is composed of some 1,000 valves, 32 4ft. mercury tubes, and provide the answers to such problems as 500 ten-figure numbers, or 1,000 five-figure numbers and research into engineering, astronomical and atomic physics, and other problems too complicated for the human brain. 100,000 different calculations per minute can be completed. The picture shows Dr. H.V. WILKES with four of the mercury tubes which are the brains of the calculator. Anm. Wilkes, Maurice Vincent, f. 1913, brittisk vetenskapsman med datorer som specialitet EDSAC, en av världens första datorer med vilken de första beräkningarna gjordes 6 maj 1947 CD403 persons: MAURICE VINCENT WILKES sites: STORBRITANNIEN;CAMBRIDGE

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