First general-purpose electronic computer
- Who
- ENIAC
- What
- First
- Where
- United States
- When
- 1946
ENIAC, Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was completed in 1946 and was designed to computer firing tables for the US Army’s artillery. It weighed 27 tonnes, measured 2.6 x 0.9 x 24 m, used 150 kilowatts of power, and contained 10,000 capacitors, 17,468 vacuum tubes, 7,200 crystal diodes and 70,000 resistors. It was the first general-purpose electronic computer.