ENIAC Initiating Unit
date: label: Date made
content: 1947-02-12
name: label: maker
content: University of Pennsylvania
notes: label: Description
content: This object is the initiator panel for the ENIAC or Electrical Numerical Integrator and Computer. The machine was a large, high-speed electronic calculator that could be programmed to solve a series of equations automatically. It was created by the U.S. Army during World War II to calculate ballistics tables for Army artillery.
label: Description
content: ENIAC as a whole filled a room measuring 30 feet by 50 feet and weighed 30 tons. It used around 18,000 vacuum tubes of 16 types, 1500 relays, 70,000 resistors, and 10,000 capacitors. It was 8 feet high, 3 feet wide, almost 100 feet long (if stretched out), and consumed 140 kilowatts of power. Construction costs were around half a million dollars.
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
place: label: place made
content: United States: Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
setName: label: See more items in
content: Medicine and Science: Computers
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: CI.308932.434
label: catalog number
content: 308932.434
label: accession number
content: 308932
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Mainframe Computer Component
physicalDescription: label: Measurements
content: overall: 102 in x 24 in x 24 in; 259.08 cm x 60.96 cm x 60.96 cm