It was November 4, 1952, and Americans huddled in their living rooms to follow the results of the Presidential race between General Dwight David Eisenhower and Adlai Stevenson, Governor of Illinois.

Remington Rand's Univac computer was big and expensive. But it built its reputation quickly as a predictor of presidential elections. Photo: U.S. Army View Slideshow __1952: __Television makes its ...

The UNIVAC had already predicted the 1952 Presidential election. But Remington Rand, the company behind the machine, had bigger things in mind. Like the weather. And making money. The UNIVAC was one ...

The Univac 1004 Card Processor was designed and developed in the 1960's. Its physical size and processor speed along with its peripheral devices (card reader, printer and card punch) was at the time, ...

Even if you aren’t a Disney fan, you probably know about EPCOT — Experimental Prototype Community of Tomorrow — a Disney attraction that promised a glimpse of the future. [ErnieTech] takes a glimpse ...

The personal computers of today are slick and savvy, performing countless operations seemingly at ease. Given the way in which technology has progressed, it seems unfathomable that early computers ...

This article was initially written in 2009. Sending men to the Moon was not just about building gigantic Saturn V rockets and shooting them off into space. While it was the critical component of the ...

IIIF provides researchers rich metadata and media viewing options for comparison of works across cultural heritage collections. Visit the IIIF page to learn more. Engineers J. Presper Eckert and John ...

On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was ...