What year did the ENIAC originally come into existence?

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What year did the ENIAC originally come into existence?

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ENIAC:- In 1946, Mauchly and Eckert developed the Electrical Numerical Integrator And Calculator (ENIAC). The American military sponsored this research because it needed a computer for calculating artillery-firing tables, the settings used for different weapons under varied conditions for target accuracy.

As the branch of the military responsible for calculating the tables, the Ballistics Research Laboratory (BRL) became interested after hearing about Mauchly's research at the Moore School. Mauchly had previously created several calculating machines and in 1942 began designing a better calculating machine based on the work of John Atanaoff, an inventor who used vacuum tubes to speed up calculations.

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