Electronic-Digital Computer

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John V. Atanasoff

In October 1939 in Ames, Iowa, John Vincent Atanasoff, assisted by his graduate student, Clifford E. Berry, constructed a prototype for the first electronic-digital computer, conceived in 1937. Its principles, including binary numbers, would be central to the future development of computers.