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Location PART 2 - FOUR HIDDEN CHIMNEYS CHAPTER 6: SCAFFOLDING FOR INFLUENCE Post-Industrial Craft

"ENIAC was built for the U.S. Army to calculate artillery trajectories and firing-table problems."

Eckert's Smithsonian oral history describes ENIAC's wartime development for calculations involving artillery-shell trajectories and firing tables.

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Source title Interview with J. Presper Eckert
Source authors J. Presper Eckert; David Allison; Peter Vogt
Source year 1988
Confidence high
Importance mid
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