... including his formative years, his education, and his career. John Mauchly was born August 30, 1907 in Cincinnati, Ohio, to Sebastian and Rachel Mauchly. Sebastian Mauchly had a PhD in physics from the University of Cincinnati and in 1913 the family moved to Washington D.C. when Sebastian was "appointed as head of the Terrestrial Electricity and Magnetism section at the Carnegie Institute ... program fulfilling the requirements of his scholarship. By the end of his sophomore year, however, he was bored with the engineering courses, so "he switched majors and enrolled in the physics Ph.D...

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... invention was a failure for the most part because lack of precision and lack of demand for such a machine. However between 1850 and 1900's there were great advances in mathematics and physics that began to rekindle the interest in such machines made by Pascal and Babbage. Many of these new advance involved complex calculations and formulas that were just too time consuming ... ...

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