Computer - The First "automatic electronic digital computer"

Time: 1942

Place: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, U.S.

Details: In the US, John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford E. Berry of Iowa State University developed and tested the Atanasoff–Berry Computer (ABC) in 1942, the first "automatic electronic digital computer". This design was also all-electronic and used about 300 vacuum tubes, with capacitors fixed in a mechanically rotating drum for memory.

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