Download or read book Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer Eniac Technical Manual written by Adele K. Goldstine and published by Periscope Film LLC. This book was released on 2012-11 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition provides a fascinating glimpse into the technology behind the world's first electronic, general-purpose computer, conceived by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert and financed by the Ordnance Department of the U.S. Army. The Army's intent was to use it to calculate artillery firing tables but eventually it was even used to compute data for the design of the hydrogen bomb.