... computer, it could only decode secret messages. Second, the existence of the machine was kept secret until decades after the war. It was the American who produced some achievement. Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973), a Harvard engineer working with IBM, succeeded in producing an all-electronic calculator by 1944 for the U.S. Navy. It was about half as long as a football field and contained ... ...

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