CHM Revolution

Date

1951 ca.

Credit Line

Courtesy of the Shelby White and Leon Levy Archives Center, Institute for Advanced Study (IAS)

Copyright Owner

© Alan Richards

Object ID

500004275

Von Neumann persuaded IAS to expand from doing theoretical studies to building a real computer, with meteorology calculations as a key test of its scientific value. The cylinders at the bottom are the Williams-Kilburn memory tubes.