Subject: Electronic digital computers - Philadelphia Area Archives Search Results

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: University Archives and Records Center [Contact Us]

Extent:: 37 linear feet (37 boxes)
Abstract:: John W. Mauchly (1907-1980) was a physicist, teacher, and a leader in the development of computers. With J. Presper Eckert, he invented the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), the Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer (EDVAC), the Binary Automatic Computer (BINAC), and the Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC). This first installment of Mauchly's papers documents Mauchly's youth, education, early career at Ursinus College, his work at the University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Electrical Engineering, his partnership with J. Presper Eckert, with whom he formed two companies, the Electronic Control Company (ECC) and the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (EMCC), and his work through 1959 with Remington Rand/Sperry Rand after its purchase of EMCC in 1950. Early work in programming, coding, compilers, routines and subroutines, and most importantly, the application of electronic computers in government, business, and industry, as well as the history of...(see more)

Held at: University of Pennsylvania: Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts [Contact Us]

Extent:: 169 volumes and 1.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of technical reports created by the Computer Sciences Laboratory. The laboratory was a division of the Department of Electrical Engineering. Before 1967, the Computer Sciences Laboratory was known as the Digital Systems Laboratory.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Engineering Library [Contact Us]

Extent:: 340 volumes and 1.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of technical reports created by the Department of Computer Science at Princeton University between 1985 and 1995.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Engineering Library [Contact Us]

Extent:: 54 volumes and 1.0 linear feet
Abstract:: Consists of technical reports created by the Digital Systems Laboratory of the Department of Electrical Engineering at Princeton University. The reports issued after 1967 are associated with the Computer Science Laboratory.

Held at: Princeton University Library: Engineering Library [Contact Us]

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