Happy (belated) birthday, ENIAC

All projects have four birthdays. They are: inception, funding, completion, and announcement, and maybe a fifth—first sale. The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC) was conceived and built-in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and completed in 1945. The project’s inception can be traced to August 1942, when Dr. John W. Mauchly produced a seven-page memorandum—The Use of High-Speed Vacuum Tube Devices for Calculation. The concept was embraced, and a project was initiated to build a machine that could generate gunnery tables for artillery being developed by the U.S. during WWII. In 1943, the project was funded by the U.S. Army Ordnance Department and