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Video Title: The ENIAC and its makers: Eighteen-thousand vacuum tubes and a box of light bulbs.
Description: "On Valentine's Day sixty years ago, the world read the first newspaper accounts of a mysterious, new computing machine in Philadelphia. It wasn't the first computer ever made, but on that day, public awareness of modern technology took its first great post-war jump forward." Featuring Presper Eckert, John Mauchly, and ENIAC, the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer.
Date of Video: 1946
Color. Sound. Length (min:sec): 5:48.
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Location of Original: clip provided by CNET Networks, Inc.
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ENIAC--monster and marvel--debuted 60 years ago. By Michael Kanellos. CNET News.com (February 13, 2006)

The politics of invention. By Michael Kanellos. CNET News.com (February 13, 2006)

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