A Calculating machine
The control panel of the automatic sequence-controlled calculating machine at Manchester University; showing the monitor cathode-ray tube with Dr. T. Kilburn (left) and Professor F. C. Williams (right), inventor of the memory storage system. Williams became Professor Electrical Engineering at Manchester in 1946 is chiefly known for his development of the Williams tube, the first successful electrostatic random access memory for the digital computer. This enabled him, along with Kilburn, to operate the world's first stored-program computer in June 1948
Picture No
10216252
Media ID
46009965
Size
6042px x 4021px
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Credit
© Illustrated London News Ltd/Mary Evans
Source
The Illustrated London News. June 25th 1949. Front cover
Date
1949
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