Records relating to presentation of Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, 1944 August 7.

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Records relating to presentation of Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, 1944 August 7.

Records relating to presentation of the automatic sequence controlled calculator to Harvard University, through President James B. Conant, from International Business Machines Corporation, by President Thomas J. Watson, held in the Faculty Room...dated Monday, August 7, 1944...Robert C. Cunningham, stenotype reporter. Included in an archival category entitled Chronological miscellany, which consists of materials relating to or created by the Corporation, organized by date.

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Harvard University Archives.

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