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ENIAC ARTIFACTS A group of various items, including:
25 October 2022, 14:00 EDT
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ENIAC ARTIFACTS
A group of various items, including:
1. ENIAC name plate, in black painted white metal, with engraved lettering: "The ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computor [sic], Developed, Designed and Constructed by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, 1944." 120 x 210 mm. Minor scratches.
2. "ENIAC Engineer" desk sign, black and white plastic plaque on wooden base, 50 x 210 mm. Wear, light chipping to corners.
3. ENIAC Section bank deposit book, issued by the First National Bank of Aberdeen, MD. 120 x 174 mm. Beige cloth covers with inked account information: "ENIAC Section, Winifred Jonas, Treas., c/o BRL, A.P.G. Ind." One entry on p 1, showing a deposit of $31, dated April 13, 1950. Minimal wear.
4. ENIAC Input/Output cards. 3 cards, 83 x 187 mm each, one with rectangular punch holes. Some staining and wear to edges.
5. [MAYER, MARIA GOEPPERT. 1906-1972.] Cigar box, tin, Du Maurier brand, painted in red, gold and black, 85 x 75 x 22 mm, with laminated note in ink inserted: "This small cigar box contained very smelly small cigars — that were smoked by Dr. MARIA MAYER 1949 in the outer ENIAC room (which contained the IBM printer & reader for reading data to be used in ENIAC computations). Dr. Mayer, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, gave the box to Winifred Smith (Jonas) who was a mathematician — operating Hydrogen Bomb research program brought from Los Alamos, N. Mex, U. of Chicago and Rand Institute, California." Heavy wear, dents, paint scuffed.
Provenance: Winifred S. Jonas, ENIAC/EDVAC/ORDVAC programmer at BRL.
An interesting group of relics from the ENIAC including an original but unused ENIAC name plate created for President Harry S. Truman's February 17, 1951 visit to view the ENIAC.
1. ENIAC name plate, in black painted white metal, with engraved lettering: "The ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computor [sic], Developed, Designed and Constructed by the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania, 1944." 120 x 210 mm. Minor scratches.
2. "ENIAC Engineer" desk sign, black and white plastic plaque on wooden base, 50 x 210 mm. Wear, light chipping to corners.
3. ENIAC Section bank deposit book, issued by the First National Bank of Aberdeen, MD. 120 x 174 mm. Beige cloth covers with inked account information: "ENIAC Section, Winifred Jonas, Treas., c/o BRL, A.P.G. Ind." One entry on p 1, showing a deposit of $31, dated April 13, 1950. Minimal wear.
4. ENIAC Input/Output cards. 3 cards, 83 x 187 mm each, one with rectangular punch holes. Some staining and wear to edges.
5. [MAYER, MARIA GOEPPERT. 1906-1972.] Cigar box, tin, Du Maurier brand, painted in red, gold and black, 85 x 75 x 22 mm, with laminated note in ink inserted: "This small cigar box contained very smelly small cigars — that were smoked by Dr. MARIA MAYER 1949 in the outer ENIAC room (which contained the IBM printer & reader for reading data to be used in ENIAC computations). Dr. Mayer, a Nobel Prize winner in Physics, gave the box to Winifred Smith (Jonas) who was a mathematician — operating Hydrogen Bomb research program brought from Los Alamos, N. Mex, U. of Chicago and Rand Institute, California." Heavy wear, dents, paint scuffed.
Provenance: Winifred S. Jonas, ENIAC/EDVAC/ORDVAC programmer at BRL.
An interesting group of relics from the ENIAC including an original but unused ENIAC name plate created for President Harry S. Truman's February 17, 1951 visit to view the ENIAC.