Eniac, the Electronic Numeric — Integrator and Calculator
There is as yet no full-scale, published scientific account of the Eniac. At the Ballistic Research Laboratories, Aberdeen, Md., where the machine now is, there are a few copies of some long mimeographed reports on the machine and the way it works. These were prepared by H. H. Goldstine and others when at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering, as a part of the contract under which the machine was constructed for the U. S. Government. It is possible that these reports might be consulted on request by serious students.
Some scientific descriptions of the machine and its properties are:
Burks, Arthur W., Electronic Computing Circuits of the ENIAC, Proceedings of the Institute of Radio Engineers, vol. 35, no. 8, Aug. 1947, pp. 756-767.
Clippinger, R. F., A Logical Coding System Applied to the Eniac, B. R. L. Report No. 673, Aberdeen, Md.: Ballistic Research Laboratories, Sept. 29, 1948, 41 pp.
Eckert, J. Presper, Jr., John W. Mauchly, Herman H. Goldstine, and J. G. Brainerd, Description of the ENIAC and Comments on Electronic Digital Computing Machines, Applied Mathematics Panel Report 171.2R, Washington, D. C.: National Defense Research Committee, Nov. 1945, 78 pp.
Goldstine, Herman H., and Adele Goldstine, The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), Mathematical Tables and Other Aids to Computation, vol. 2, no. 15, July 1946, pp. 97-110.
Hartree, D. R., The ENIAC, an Electronic Computing Machine, Nature, vol. 158, Oct. 12, 1946, pp. 500-506.
Hartree, D. R., Calculating Machines: Recent and Prospective Developments and Their Impact on Mathematical Physics, Cambridge, England: The University Press, 1947, 40 pp. (Pages 14 to 27 are devoted to the Eniac.)
Tabor, Lewis P., Brief Description and Operating Characteristics of the ENIAC, Proceedings of a Symposium on Large-Scale Digital Calculating Machinery, Harvard University Press, 1948, pp. 31-39.
Some of the less technical articles on Eniac are:
Rose, A., Lightning Strikes Mathematics: ENIAC, Popular Science, vol. 148, Apr. 1946, pp. 83-86.
Anonymous, Robot Calculator: ENIAC, All Electronic Device, Business Week, Feb. 16, 1946, p. 50...
Anonymous, Answers by ENY: Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, ENIAC, Newsweek, vol. 27, Feb. 18, 1946, p. 76.
Anonymous, Adds in ¹/₅₀₀₀ Second: Electronic Computing Machine at the University of Pennsylvania, Science News Letter, vol. 49, Feb. 23, 1946, p. 113...
Anonymous, ENIAC: at the University of Pennsylvania, Time, vol. 47, Feb. 25, 1946, p. 90.
Anonymous, It Thinks with Electrons; the ENIAC, Popular Mechanics, vol. 85, June 1946, p. 139.
Anonymous, Electronic Calculator: ENIAC, Scientific American, vol. 174, June 1946, p. 248.