Evening star. [volume], September 08, 1946, Page 6, Image 83

About Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972

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The EH I AC can calculate the Mac* poiition and speed of a projactila aach 1/10 of a
second throughout iti flight, and do it foster than tha projactila reaches it* target.
How high is up?
When Uncle Sam’s Ground Forces soldiers dis
play their marksmanship, there’s more to their
accuracy than meets the eye. Back of them is the
world’s greatest aggregation of scientific research.
Perhaps the most uncanny development along
these lines is the ENIAC, a massive, 30-ton com
puting and calculating machine perfected by
civilian science and industry for, and in co-opera
tion with, the U. S. Army Ordnance Department.
ENIAC is an almost unbelievable complexity of
electrical circuits operating 18,000 electronic
tubes. It adds, subtracts, multiplies, divides and
computes square roots of astronomical figures...
makes split-second calculations which would
ordinarily require thousands of man-hours.
How does this benefit the soldier in the field?
As one of many ways, by computing in advance
the true course of any kind of projectile under
every known condition, involving weather, tem
perature, wind velocity and many other factors.
It can predict, for example, to within a few feet
exactly when, where and how fast a rocket, fired
120 miles up into the stratosphere, will land.
ENIAC, “Walkie-Talkie,” “night sight” view
ers, recoilless rifles, radar, television and count
less other scientific aids make the American
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