Hawthorne / Princeton / Philadelphia / Washington / D.C. / Dayton / New York City / Fort Schuyler / New York / Newport Beach / Los Angeles / /
Company
Northrop Aircraft Inc. / Naval Research Laboratory / Binary Automatic Computer / General Electric Company / Hewlett-Packard Company / NCR / Rand Corporation / Ballistic Research Laboratory / Douglas Aircraft / IEEE Annals / Purpose Computer / Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation / Computer Research Corporation / Project MX / Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer / /
Country
Germany / United States / /
Currency
USD / pence / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / Business Partnership / M&A / Product Issues / Product Recall / Labor Issues / /
Facility
Princeton Inn / Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History / Ballistic Research Laboratory / University of California at Berkeley / Princeton Institute / Charles Babbage Institute / Computer History Museum / California Institute of Technology / Purdue University / Naval Research Laboratory / University of Southern California / University of Minnesota / University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School / Irving S. Reed University of Southern California Hrant H. / /
IndustryTerm
launch site / word software / in-flight equipment / relay devices / puter / main memory device / communications development / germanium diode networks / clock device / aircraft control systems / project management / servo systems / profitable electronics / airborne electronic equipment systems / control systems / paint sprayer / electronics / microwave equipment / /
NaturalFeature
Manhattan Beach / West Coast / /
Organization
University of California / US Air Force / University of Minnesota / Minneapolis / Navy / University of Southern California / the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical Engineering / Air Force / United States Navy / Smithsonian Institute / Smithsonian / California Institute of Technology / Charles Babbage Institute / Moore School / Signal Corps / Institute for Advanced Study / Purdue University / Irving S. Reed University of Southern California Hrant H. / IEEE Computer Society / /
Person
Will Dobbins / Jack Northrop / Floyd George Steele / Don Eckdahl / Lee (Leo) Ohlinger / John von Neumann / Harold Sarkissian / Jerry Mendelson / Eric Weiss / Donald Eckdahl / Eric Ackerlind / Herman Kahn / Ike Auerbach / George Fenn / Siskind / Claude Shannon / Dostoevsky Spengler / Richard Sprague / John Mauchly / John Simon / Carl Isborn / Grace Hopper / Irving Reed / Don was / J. Presper Eckert / Kelvin / Alvin Sugar / Bob Prathers / Jack Donan / Oswald Spengler / Bob Shaw / Frank Bell / Bernie Wilson / Al Auerbach / Al Wolfe / /
Position
great mathematician / radar technician / circuit designer / immediate supervisor / Aeronautical engineer / mathematician / excellent teacher / remarkable programmer / engineer / development engineer / project engineer / professor of physics / leader and spokesman / professor / project head / on this particular program / logical designer / representative / engineer and team leader / senior manager / producer of quality test instruments / Editor / chief engineer / spokesperson / consultant / scientist / electronics technician / teacher / assistant project engineer / naval officer / biography editor / founder / /
Product
Lockheed Vega / first courses / /
ProvinceOrState
Ohio / Minnesota / Southern California / New York / Mississippi / California / New Jersey / Pennsylvania / /
PublishedMedium
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing / the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing / /
West Coast Contributions to the Development of the General-Purpose Computer Building Maddida and the Founding of Computer Research Corporation Donald E. Eckdahl