IBM ASCC-Mark I photo album: Benjamin Durfee, IBM engineer
Date: 1944
Inventory Number: Lib.1964-045a
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:
Benjamin M. Durfee, of IBM's scientific research staff. according to Harvard mathematician Bob Campbell, Durfee was responsible for most of the "detail work" on the Mark I, along with a colleague from IBM.