The Film The Machines That Changed The World
The film, "The Machines that Changed the World", was not only extremely enlightening, but also surprisingly intriguing. Although the video provided abundant information, I will only touch on the most imperative aspects. World War II was a time of rockets, atomic bombs, and ENIAC. ENIAC which stands for Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer was created by John Presper Eckert and John Mauchly in 1946. ENIAC’s initial purpose was to calculate biolistic tables of guns for the war. Unfortunately, ENIAC presented with multiple problems. First, the computer was made of large numbers of vacuum tubes that constantly burnt out. Second, to properly use ENIAC, the user must be familiar with advanced mathematics. Last and most importantly, ENIAC