Records, 1946-1953.

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Records, 1946-1953.

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The records include the administrative and operating records conveyed to Remington Rand after its 1952 merger with ERA. Included are minutes of executive, planning, and management committee meetings as well as correspondence which documents the organization of ERA. The records also include financial papers and copies of the firm's budgets from 1947 to 1952. Progress reports and engineering log books of Arnold Cohen, John Coombs, and William Keye describe work on the Atlas computer which was delivered to the Navy on December 9, 1950. These records document the important contributions made by the engineers at ERA and trace how they drew on the work at the Harvard Computation Laboratory and at MIT's Project Whirlwind.

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Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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United States. Office of Naval Research

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The original "Survey of large-scale computers and computer projects" was published by the Office of Naval Research in 1947 and 1948. It was revised and updated in 1950 under the title, HIGH-SPEED COMPUTING DEVICES (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1950). This work was contracted out to the Minneapolis, Minn., firm of Engineering Research Associates and was an attempt to survey the state of computer technology at a time when the Navy was weighing the possibility of supporting the development of the electro...

Coombs, John W. (John Wesley)

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Engineering research associates

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Early computer manufacturing firm. From the description of Engineering Research Associates records, 1945-1956. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62435921 During the Second World War, the Navy recognized that the computer, with its ability to rapidly manipulate data streams, was a natural tool for encoding and decoding enemy messages. In 1944 and 1945 it sponsored a number of research projects in this area. Its most successful unit was l...

Cohen, Arnold J.

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Electrical and electronics engineer. From the description of Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen, 1987 July 2. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63283838 Electronics engineer, later technical management, with Engineering Research Associates (ERA). From the description of Oral history interview with Arnold A. Cohen, 1983 Jan.-Mar. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63288451 ...

Norris, William C., 1911-2006

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William C. Norris was born in 1911. He graduated from the University of Nebraska with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering in 1932. He assumed management of the family farm upon the death of his father a few months later. From 1935 to 1941 he served as a sales engineer with the Westinghouse Electric & Manufacturing Company and worked in Omaha and Chicago. During World War II, Norris was commissioned as a lieutenant in the U.S. Navy and was assigned to the Office of the Chief of Na...

Engstrom, Howard T. (Howard Theodore), 1902-1962

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Keye, William R., 1921-

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Control Data Corporation executive. From the description of Oral history interview with William R. Keye, 1981 Nov. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 62436502 ...

Remington Rand, Inc. Eckert-Mauchly Division.

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