SEAC Mercury Delay Line Memory
date: label: Date made
content: 1950
name: label: designer
content: National Bureau of Standards
notes: label: Description
content: Mercury delay lines like this one provided central memory for the SEAC (Standards Eastern Automatic Computer). The National Bureau of Standards in Washington created the SEAC as a laboratory for testing components and systems for setting computer standards. The SEAC was the first computer to use all-diode logic, a technology more reliable than vacuum tubes, and the first stored-program computer completed in the United States.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: District of Columbia, Washington
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: U.S. Department of Commerce, National Bureau of Standards
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1980.0305.05
label: catalog number
content: 1980.0305.05
label: accession number
content: 1980.0305
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Component
label: Object Name
content: mainframe computer component
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: metal; mercury (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 1/2 in x 26 in x 2 in; 8.89 cm x 66.04 cm x 5.08 cm