IBM ASCC-Mark I photo album: close-up of multiply-divide unit, storage counters
Date: 1944
Inventory Number: Lib.1964-050
Classification: Photograph
Description:
This photograph is included among 117 photos in an album of 109 pages. The images portray the assembly of the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (Harvard Mark I) computer in the Cruft Laboratory of Harvard University's Physics Department and the ceremony in August 1944 in which it was dedicated.
Details of the people and activities in each photograph are given in separate entries from Lib.1964-001 to Lib.1964-109. Inventory record numbers with "a" and "b" attached refer to pairs of images originally glued to a single page of the album.
This photograph shows:
close up of the multiply-divide unit and racks of storage counters (from right to left) for the Mark I during its installation in the Cruft Laboratory at Harvard University, 1 February 1944.