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Containing 2000 Vacuum Tubes and Weighing 100,000 Pounds (1942)


Vannevar Bush at MIT completed the Rockefeller Differential Analyzer II, a monstrous analog machine more accurate and faster than the first Differential Analyzer. It contained two thousand vacuum tubes and weighed about one hundred thousand pounds. For security reasons its existence was not publicized until October 1945.