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The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operations was:
The first machine to successfully perform a long series of arithmetic and logical operations was:
Conceived by Harvard physics professor Howard Aiken, and designed and built by IBM, the Harvard Mark 1 is a room-sized, relay-based calculator. The machine had a fifty-foot long camshaft running the length of machine that synchronized the machine’s thousands of component parts and used 3,500 relays.