NATS 1700 Chapter Notes - Chapter pg. 69-91: Edvac, Eniac, Totalitarianism
16 Nov 2016
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Inventing the computer: best-known wartime scientific program was the manhattan project at los alamos to. Wednesday 14th 2016 develop the atomic bomb : another major program was rader, in which the radiation laboratory at mit played a major role. It has been said that although the bomb ended the war, radar won it. : the scientific war effort in the united states was administered by the office of scientific. Research and development (osrd) : headed by vannevar bush, national defense research committee (ndrc, a research division was established at the proving ground, which acquired one of the first copies of the bush differential analyzer. World war i and was formally named the ballistics research laboratory (brl) in. 1938. : main activity was mathematical ballistics-calculating the trajectories of weapons fired through the air or water-and it initially had a staff of about thirty people, herman h. goldstine- plays a large role in developing the modern computer.
