Archive for February 14th, 2011

WESTERN UNION TELEGRAM AD FROM 1948

telegram valentine's day
                               Valentines-Day-Candy1

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WORLD’S FIRST COMPUTER MADE PUBLIC ON THIS DATE IN 1946

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Left to right above are John W. Mauchly and John P. Eckert

ENIAC short for Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer, was the world’s
first general-purpose electronic computer. It was a digital computer capable of being reprogrammed to solve a full range of computing problems. ENIAC was designed to calculate artillery firing data for the U.S. Army’s Ballistic Research Laboratory. The computer was conceived and designed by John W. Mauchly and John P. Eckert
(photo above) of the University of Pennsylvania’s Moore School of Electrical
Engineering. The project was financed by the U.S. Army during World War ll.

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ENIAC 
Above are photos of the ENIAC and programmers at the University of Pennsylvania

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JACK BENNY ~ FEB. 14, 1894–DEC. 26, 1974

 jackbenny main

jack benny well!

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happy-valentines-day

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OREGON STATEHOOD ON THIS DATE IN 1859

 state flag front

In what was first called Oregon Country, traders, explorers, and settlers  formed
an autonomous government in 1843.The Oregon Territory was created in 1848,
and Oregon became the 33rd state of the union in 1859.

state flag back

                       OregonQuarter
                       The Oregon quarter

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