Papers, 1937-

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Papers, 1937-

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Collection consists of the papers of the mathematician, George Robert Stibitz. Includes notes, lectures, correspondence, patents, reports, drawings, photographs; and other papers related to his contributions to the development of the computer and his work at Bell Telephone Laboratories and the National Defense Research Committee and as a private consultant for government and industry. Includes patents and patent applications made by other people, notebooks, reports, articles, catalogs, manuals, and miscellaneous materials related to the history of the development of the computer. Also includes material related to airline reservation systems ad to the patent litigation cases: Technitrol vs. Sperry Rand (1958-1962) and Sperry Rand vs. Bell Telephone Laboratories (1960-1962).

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Dartmouth College Library

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Bell Telephone Laboratories, inc.

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Whittemore, Harrison, 1837-1928

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Harrison Whittemore (b. May 2, 1837, Danvers, Essex County, Mass.-d. July 20, 1928), son of Joseph Whittemore and Eliza Estey Whittemore, originally from New Hampshire. He had one sister, Mary Eliza, and a brother, Joseph Warren. He attended the Scientific School of Harvard College prior to joining the army. He joined Company K, 1st Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, on May 24, 1861, and was first stationed at Cambridge, Massachusetts, at Camp Ellsworth. He was a veteran of the 1st and ...

Technitrol Engineering Company

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Stibitz, George R. (George Robert), 1904-1995

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Stibitz was born in York, Pa. in 1904. He received his Ph.D from Denison University and his M.S. from Union College. Completing his post-graduate studies at Cornell University, he received his Ph.D in Mathematical Physics in 1930. He worked as a Research Mathematician at Bell Telephone Laboratories, 1930-1941. While at Bell, he began to experiment with an "automated calculator" and the "Complex Computer". During World War II he worked as a Technical Aid in Section 7 of the National ...

Sperry Rand Corporation

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There are two epochs in the history of computing: before the completion of the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (known as the ENIAC), and after. While there are several controversies about the development of the ENIAC and its immediate successors, there is nearly universal agreement on three points: the ENIAC was the watershed project which convinced the world that electronic computing was not merely possible, but practicable; it was a masterpiece of electrical engineeri...

Moore School of Electrical Engineering

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The catalyst which advanced electrical engineering and the computer beyond the differential analyzer and to the ENIAC was the demands of the Army during the 1930s and particularly the Second World War. The practical need which the differential analyzer could not solve effectively was the preparation of firing tables and charts which showed how to aim artillery accurately. Too many people and too much time were required to prepare these tables. The federal government was willing to f...