The inventors of the The Manchester Baby & The Williams-Kilburn Tube
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
all artwork ©Mary Bellis/army photos
