Featured Story
The Manchester Baby
The Manchester Baby and the Williams-Kilburn Tube turn on the memories in the History of Computers.

Further Reading
Sir Frederick Williams
A biography of Frederic Calland Williams.

Tom Kilburn
A biography of Tom Kilburn.

The Williams-Kilburn Tube Principle
Understanding how the Williams-Kilburn Tube operated.

Stored Program
Tom Kilburn's original notes for the world's first stored computer program.

Manchester Mark 1
Pictures of the Manchester Mark 1.

Ferranti Mark 1
In 1951, the world's first commercially-available general-purpose computer was built called the Ferranti Mark 1, a collaboration between the Manchester University team and Ferranti Ltd.

Computer 50
The University of Manchester celebrates the birth of the modern computer.

Related Information
History of Computers

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