Contract Signed to Build ENIAC

The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and the US Army sign a contract to develop the ENIAC electronic computer. One of its intended tasks is artillery ballistic calculation.

The Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania and the US Army signed a contract to develop the ENIAC electronic computing machine. One of its intended tasks was artillery ballistic calculation.

This is the date of the contract, not the date the computer entered service or was publicly unveiled. The project was completed after the war and influenced the later history of digital computing.

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