Sperry Corporation photograph collection. 1920-1977.

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Sperry Corporation photograph collection. 1920-1977.

1920-1977

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The earliest items in this collection are several photographs of the Atanasoff computer which were evidence used in a Honeywell, Inc.-Sperry Rand Corp. lawsuit. The majority of photographs document about thirty years of research and development at Sperry's Univac Division and one of its predecessor companies, Eckert Mauchly Computer Corp. The files are arranged by products and subjects and include images of the company's major computer systems. There are pictures of the ENIAC (1945-1946); BINAC, the first programmable computer (1949); UNIVAC I, II, III (1951-1960) which include 19 small, identified photos of UNIVAC I taken by John W. Mauchly himself in 1950; the 1100 series of scientific computers (1953-1962); the LARC (Livermore Automatic Research Calculator) (1960); the 490/491/494 (real time computer systems) and the solid state systems of the 1960s and 1970s. In addition there are over 200 photos of different kinds of punched card equipment (including sorters, tabulators, verifiers, collators including some made by the Powers Accounting Machine Company, computer peripherals (including printers and magnetic and paper tape converters) and computer components (control panels, chassis, magnetic and core memories, circuit boards, ferractors). This collection also includes views of different offices (Birmingham, Ala.; Dallas; Washington, etc.); labs (including the St. Paul, Minn., physics and electronic engineering research groups); and personnel from the Eckert Mauchly Computer Corp. These images trace the technological history of electronic data processing at Sperry Rand Corp.from the 1950s to the mid 1970s. Most of them, however, appear to come from advertising office files, so there are a lot of photos which include posed photographs with fashion models and female employes interacting with machines or photos of machines taken for use in advertisements. The most modern items are 35 mm slides which were used as AV presentations, but they are without their scripts. One of these is labeled "COBOL Basic Course Univac Marketing Education." There are also four reel-to-reel audio tapes. Two are identified: "Interviews and Summaries by Attorney for IBM. Interviews of Anderson, Graham, Walker, Fenn, Steele. Re: BINAC at Northrup." One is identified: "Mendelso(h?)n interview, Nov. 2, 1967" and the other "Dr. Pierce interview, Nov. 3, 1967."

470 photographic prints : b&w ; 2 1/4 x 2 1/4 in., on sheets 8 x 10 in.97 photographic prints : b&w ; 4 x 5 in., on sheets 8 x 10 in.1896 photographic prints : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.226 photographic prints : color ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.92 negatives : b&w ; 8 x 10 in. or smaller.25 negatives : color ; 8 x 10 in.323 negatives : b&w ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.28 negatives : color ; 4 x 5 in. or smaller.13 negatives : b&w ; 35 mm. or smaller.139 transparencies : color ; 8 x 10 in.170 transparencies : color ; 4 x 5 in.323 transparencies : color ; 35 mm.4 sound recordings : sound tape reels ; 1200 ft. on 1/2 tape.

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Mauchly, John W. (John William), 1907-1980

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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...

Goldstine, Herman H. (Herman Heine), 1913-2004

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Remington Rand, Inc. Univac Division.

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Sperry Rand Corporation. Univac Division

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The Honeywell-Sperry Rand suit grew out of the ENIAC patent which covered basic patents relating to the design of electronic digital computers. Sperry Rand was the defendant in the case. From the description of Honeywell v. Sperry litigation records, 1947-1972. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306806 Computer hardware and software manufacturer. From the description of Sperry Rand Corporation Univac Division employee rosters, 1946- 197...

Eckert, J. Presper (John Presper), 1919-1995

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Powers Accounting Machine Company.

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Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation (Philadelphia, Pa.)

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Hopper, Grace Murray, 1906-1992

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Grace Brewster Murray Hopper (née Murray December 9, 1906 – January 1, 1992) was an American computer scientist and United States Navy rear admiral. One of the first programmers of the Harvard Mark I computer, she was a pioneer of computer programming who invented one of the first linkers. Hopper was the first to devise the theory of machine-independent programming languages, and the FLOW-MATIC programming language she created using this theory was later extended to create COBOL, an early high-l...

Sperry Univac

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Brainerd, John G. (John Grist), 1904-1988

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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...

Electronic Control Company.

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Sperry Rand Corporation. Univac Division

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The Honeywell-Sperry Rand suit grew out of the ENIAC patent which covered basic patents relating to the design of electronic digital computers. Sperry Rand was the defendant in the case. From the description of Honeywell v. Sperry litigation records, 1947-1972. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63306806 Computer hardware and software manufacturer. From the description of Sperry Rand Corporation Univac Division employee rosters, 1946- 197...

Rittase, William M., 1894-1968

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William M. Rittase (January 16, 1887-October 28, 1968) was an American photographer active in Philadelphia during the 1920s and 1930s. He was known for his industrial photography commissioned for articles and advertisements and his photographs appeared frequently in Fortune magazine and other periodicals in the 1930s. His work was included in Lincoln Kirstein’s 1930 Harvard Society for Contemporary Art exhibition among numerous other exhibitions. Rittase was affiliated with the Camera Pictoriali...

Foerman Shoe Company.

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Harnwell, G. P. (Gaylord Probasco), 1903-1982

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Auerbach, Isaac L. (Isaac Levin), 1921-1992

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Computer industry executive and consultant. From the description of Oral history interview with Isaac Auerbach, 1992 Oct. 2-3. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63289955 From the description of Oral history interview with Issac L. Auerbach, 1978 Apr. 10. (University of Minnesota, Minneapolis). WorldCat record id: 63276428 Isaac Auerbach, an engineer educated at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, joined ...