J. Presper Eckert
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John Adam Presper "Pres" Eckert Jr. was an American electrical engineer and computer pioneer. With John Mauchly, he designed the first general-purpose electronic digital computer, presented the first
J. Presper Eckert (center), co-designer of the UNIVAC, and Harold Sweeny of the US Census Bureau at the console of the UNIVAC, with Walter Cronkite (r.) on CBS TV, during Presidential election night, 1952
UNIVAC I
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The UNIVAC I was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer for business applications produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the i
J. Presper Eckert
…computing topics (the Moore School Lectures), founded the Eckert–Mauchly Computer Corporation, and designed the first commercial computer in the U.S., the UNIVAC, which incorporated Eckert's invention of the mercury delay-line memory. Eckert was born in Philadelphia to Ethel M. Hallowell, who came from an old…
A UNIVAC I at the United States Census Bureau in 1951
UNIVAC I operator's console
UNIVAC I at Franklin Life Insurance Company