Accession No

6898

Brief Description

archival material relating to the Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator (EDSAC) and post war computing in Cambridge, English, mid- to late 20th Century

Origin

England; Cambridge

Maker

Class

computer technology

Earliest Date

1937

Latest Date

1993

Inscription Date

Material

Dimensions

Special Collection

Provenance

Inscription

Description Notes

Records include: glass slides, negatives, prints, correspondence and lists relating to computing developments undertaken at Cambridge University's Mathematical Laboratory, later the Computer Laboratory, now the Department of Computer Science. Some of the slides appear to have been compiled for lectures on the history and early development of computers, and used during a period when the study of computing as an academic subject and the provision of computing facilities to the University as a whole were comprehensively bound together.

For further information on the history and work of the Department, see https://www.cst.cam.ac.uk/history

The records comprise:

A series of 8 wooden slide boxes, marked A - H, containing glass lantern slides, comprising slides on the history of computer development, equipment and laboratory images for EDSAC, EDSAC 2, ACE, EMIDEC, Ferrati, ENIAC, ASCC, Harvard Mark II, staff and technicians in the laboratory, also includes formulas, diagrams, calculations, sequences, flow diagrams, and charts

2 box files of photographs, some bundles in labelled envelopes, including EDSAC, EDSAC 2, Titan, personnel including MV Wilkes, early computing, EDSAC closing down ceremony 1968, moving to new building 1969, visit of HRH the Duke of Edingurgh and the Chancellor of the University 1993

1 box of miscellaneous slides, photographs, negatives and associated correspondence and papers relating to computer developments in Cambridge, and elsewhere, including correspondence and copy photographs of Professor J E Lennard-Jones' Meccano Differential Analyser No 2, 1937

For a detailed catalogue, see the Museum's archive catalogue via the Cambridge University's archives database 'Archives Search' at https://archivesearch.lib.cam.ac.uk/repositories/45

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