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# February 25, 1913: The Armory Show Opens, Revolutionizing American Art and Science

On February 25, 1913, the doors opened to what would become one of the most scandalous and transformative exhibitions in American history: the International Exhibition of Modern Art, better known as the Armory Show. While primarily remembered as an art event, this groundbreaking exhibition had profound implications for how Americans understood the relationship between perception, reality, and scientific thinking.

Held at the 69th Regiment Armory in New York City, the show introduced approximately 1,300 works of European modernist and American art to a largely unprepared American public. But here's where it gets scientifically fascinating: the exhibition forced viewers to confront radical new ways of perceiving reality that paralleled the revolutionary scientific discoveries happening simultaneously in physics and psychology.

Consider the star (or villain, depending on who you asked) of the show: Marcel Duchamp's "Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2." This painting caused an absolute uproar! Critics called it "an explosion in a shingle factory" and worse. But what Duchamp had actually done was visualize *time* and *motion* in a static medium—showing multiple sequential positions of a figure simultaneously. This was essentially a artistic interpretation of chronophotography and the scientific study of motion pioneered by Étienne-Jules Marey and Eadweard Muybridge.

The timing was extraordinary. Einstein's theory of special relativity (1905) had shattered Newtonian certainties about absolute time and space. The Cubists—heavily featured in the Armory Show—were doing something similar in visual terms, showing objects from multiple viewpoints simultaneously, rejecting the single-perspective tyranny that had dominated Western art since the Renaissance. They were, in effect, creating a visual language for the fourth dimension and relativistic thinking.

The public's visceral reaction to these works reveals something crucial about human cognition and the scientific method: our brains resist paradigm shifts. Former President Theodore Roosevelt visited the exhibition and wrote that the Cubists were "lunatics," yet he admitted he kept thinking about the works, unable to dismiss them entirely. This cognitive dissonance—the uncomfortable state between old and new understanding—is precisely what drives scientific progress.

The Armory Show also featured works exploring color theory, psychological perception, and abstraction that directly engaged with contemporary scientific investigations into human vision and consciousness. Artists were reading the same scientific literature as researchers, particularly the work of Hermann von Helmholtz on optics and color perception.

The exhibition traveled to Chicago and Boston, attracting nearly 300,000 visitors total—this at a time when America's population was about 97 million. Art students burned Matisse in effigy in Chicago. The show

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# The Discovery of Pluto: February 24, 1930

On February 24, 1930, a 23-year-old farm boy from Kansas named Clyde Tombaugh made one of the most captivating astronomical discoveries of the 20th century: he found Pluto, what would become known as our solar system's ninth planet (and later, famously, the center of a planetary identity crisis).

Tombaugh's journey to this moment was itself remarkable. Born to a family of farmers, he built his own telescopes from spare machinery parts and car axles. His detailed sketches of Mars and Jupiter were so impressive that they landed him a job at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, despite having no college degree. His task? To continue the obsessive quest of the observatory's founder, Percival Lowell, who had died in 1916 convinced that a mysterious "Planet X" lurked beyond Neptune, betraying its presence through gravitational tugs on the known planets.

The work was mind-numbingly tedious. Tombaugh spent nearly a year photographing the same sections of sky on different nights, then using a device called a blink comparator to flip rapidly between the photographic plates. Most objects—stars—would appear stationary, but a planet, being much closer, would shift position against the background of distant stars. Hour after hour, day after day, he examined thousands upon thousands of stellar images, searching for that telltale movement.

On the afternoon of February 18, 1930, while examining plates from January 23 and January 29, Tombaugh spotted something. A faint dot had moved. His heart raced. He spent the next six days meticulously checking and rechecking, verifying that this wasn't an asteroid or a photographic flaw. Finally, on February 24, confident in his discovery, he walked to the observatory director's office and calmly announced: "I have found your Planet X."

The announcement electrified the world on March 13, 1930—appropriately on Percival Lowell's birthday. The discovery captured public imagination during the grim early years of the Great Depression, offering a moment of cosmic wonder. An 11-year-old English schoolgirl named Venetia Burney suggested naming it Pluto, after the Roman god of the underworld—fitting for a cold, dark world at the edge of the known solar system. The name stuck, partly because the first two letters honored Percival Lowell.

For 76 years, Pluto reigned as the ninth planet, though it was always an oddball: tiny, with an elliptical and tilted orbit, sometimes even closer to the Sun than Neptune. The plot thickened in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union controversially reclassified Pluto as a "dwarf planet," sparking debates that continue to this day.

Tombaugh never completed college when he started at Lowell Observatory, but the University of Kansas later awarded him degrees in astronomy. He lived to see spacecraft explore the planets he'd studied through telescopes, though he died in 1997, nine years before the New Horizons mission launched toward Pluto. Fit

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# The Discovery of Superconductivity: February 23, 1987

On February 23, 1987, physicists Paul Chu and Maw-Kuen Wu announced a breakthrough that sent shockwaves through the scientific community: they had created a material that could conduct electricity without resistance at temperatures far warmer than anyone thought possible. This discovery triggered what became known as the "Woodstock of Physics" and revolutionized our understanding of superconductivity.

## The Background

For decades, superconductivity had been physics' beautiful but impractical phenomenon. Since its discovery in 1911 by Dutch physicist Heike Kamerlingh Onnes, scientists knew that certain materials could conduct electricity with zero resistance—but only when cooled to within a few degrees of absolute zero (-273°C). This required expensive liquid helium, making practical applications frustratingly out of reach.

The theoretical barrier seemed insurmountable. Most physicists believed that superconductivity above 30 Kelvin (-243°C) was fundamentally impossible based on existing theory.

## The Breakthrough

Chu, at the University of Houston, and Wu, at the University of Alabama, were experimenting with ceramic compounds containing yttrium, barium, copper, and oxygen (YBCO). On this fateful February day, they announced their material became superconductive at 93 Kelvin (-180°C). This might still sound frigid, but it was revolutionary—this temperature was above the boiling point of liquid nitrogen (77K), which is cheap, abundant, and far easier to work with than liquid helium.

The implications were staggering. Suddenly, superconductivity could be achieved with liquid nitrogen that costs less than milk, rather than liquid helium that costs hundreds of times more.

## The Frenzy That Followed

The announcement created unprecedented excitement. Just two weeks later, on March 18, 1987, over 3,000 physicists crammed into a ballroom at the New York Hilton for a special American Physical Society session that didn't end until 3:15 AM. Scientists stood on chairs, sat in aisles, and pressed against walls to hear presentations about high-temperature superconductors. The media dubbed it the "Woodstock of Physics."

Laboratories worldwide dropped everything to replicate and extend the results. In an unusual display of scientific fervor, researchers worked around the clock, with some labs posting guards to prevent industrial espionage. Stock prices of companies working on superconductivity soared.

## The Legacy

While the promised revolution in levitating trains, ultra-efficient power grids, and superfast computers hasn't quite materialized as quickly as 1987's euphoria suggested, high-temperature superconductors have found important applications. They're used in MRI machines, particle accelerators, power transmission cables in several cities, and sensitive magnetic field detectors.

More importantly, the discovery shattered theoretical assumptions and opened entirely new research directions

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# February 22, 1997: The Sheep That Shook the World

On this date, the world woke up to a scientific bombshell that would spark debates in laboratories, legislatures, and living rooms across the globe. The journal *Nature* published the announcement that scientists at the Roslin Institute in Scotland had successfully cloned a mammal from an adult somatic cell—and her name was Dolly.

Dolly the sheep wasn't just any lamb. She was arguably the most famous sheep in history, and her existence fundamentally challenged what scientists thought was possible about cellular development and the very nature of life itself.

Here's why Dolly was so revolutionary: Before her birth on July 5, 1996 (kept secret until this February announcement), the scientific consensus held that once a cell had differentiated—meaning once it had committed to being a skin cell, liver cell, or udder cell—it couldn't be reprogrammed back to square one. Adult cells had closed doors that couldn't be reopened.

Enter Ian Wilmut and Keith Campbell, the masterminds behind Dolly. They took a mammary cell from a six-year-old Finn Dorset ewe, essentially hitting a biological "pause button" by starving it of nutrients to make it dormant. Then came the microsurgical magic: they removed the nucleus from an unfertilized egg cell of a Scottish Blackface ewe and replaced it with the nucleus from that mammary cell. After a jolt of electricity to fuse everything together and jump-start cell division, the embryo was implanted into a surrogate mother.

Two hundred and seventy-seven attempts. Two hundred and seventy-six failures. But attempt number 277 gave us Dolly—a genetic copy of the original Finn Dorset ewe, despite being carried by and born to a completely different sheep.

The name "Dolly" came from country music legend Dolly Parton—a cheeky reference by the scientists to the fact that the donor cell came from mammary tissue. When Parton later learned of this honor, she reportedly found it amusing.

The announcement triggered an immediate and intense reaction. Ethicists warned about slippery slopes toward human cloning. Religious leaders grappled with questions about the soul and playing God. Science fiction scenarios suddenly seemed uncomfortably close to science fact. President Clinton swiftly banned federal funding for human cloning research. The European Parliament called for a worldwide prohibition.

But beyond the bioethical firestorm, Dolly represented a genuine scientific milestone. She proved that cellular differentiation wasn't a one-way street—that the genetic clock could be turned back. This opened revolutionary possibilities: regenerative medicine, preservation of endangered species, production of genetically modified animals for pharmaceutical purposes, and insights into aging and development.

Dolly herself lived at the Roslin Institute, eventually giving birth to several lambs through natural reproduction, proving that clones could be fertile and normal. However, she developed

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# The Birth of the Periodic Table: February 21, 1869

On February 21, 1869, a sleep-deprived Russian chemist named Dmitri Mendeleev cracked one of science's greatest puzzles while playing what was essentially the world's most consequential game of solitaire.

Mendeleev had been obsessing over a problem that had stumped chemists for decades: was there any underlying order to the chemical elements? At the time, about 63 elements were known, but they seemed like a random collection of substances with wildly different properties. Some were gases, some metals, some reactive, some inert. It was chemical chaos.

The story goes that Mendeleev had been working himself to exhaustion, writing the properties of each element on individual cards, shuffling and reshuffling them, looking for patterns. After three days and nights of sleepless work, he finally dozed off at his desk. In his dreams, the solution appeared: the elements arranged themselves in order of increasing atomic weight, with similar properties recurring periodically.

When he awoke, Mendeleev feverishly sketched out his vision. He created a table where elements were arranged in rows by increasing atomic weight, and columns grouped elements with similar chemical properties. But here's where his genius truly shone: when the pattern didn't quite work, he left gaps, boldly predicting that these blank spaces represented elements that hadn't been discovered yet!

Even more audaciously, he predicted the specific properties these mystery elements would have based on their position in his table. For instance, he left a gap he called "eka-silicon" and predicted its atomic weight, density, color, and how it would react with acids.

The scientific community was skeptical. Leaving holes in your theory seemed like cheating. But then something remarkable happened: within Mendeleev's lifetime, three of his predicted elements were discovered—gallium (1875), scandium (1879), and germanium (1886)—and their properties matched his predictions with stunning accuracy. Germanium, his "eka-silicon," had a predicted atomic weight of 72; the actual value was 72.6. He predicted its density as 5.5 g/cm³; it was actually 5.47 g/cm³.

This wasn't just lucky guessing. Mendeleev had uncovered a fundamental law of nature: the periodic law, which states that the properties of elements are periodic functions of their atomic weights (later refined to atomic numbers). His table revealed that the universe wasn't random—it had elegant, mathematical order at its heart.

The periodic table became the chemist's most essential tool, as indispensable as a map to a navigator. It didn't just organize what was known; it predicted what was unknown, guiding the discovery of dozens more elements. Today's periodic table contains 118 confirmed elements, and it's evolved beyond Mendeleev's wildest dreams, now incorporating our understanding of atomic structure, electron shells, and quantum mechanics.

What makes this February day particularly deli

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# February 20, 1962: John Glenn Becomes the First American to Orbit Earth

On February 20, 1962, astronaut John Glenn squeezed himself into the cramped confines of Friendship 7, a Mercury spacecraft barely larger than a phone booth, and blasted off from Cape Canaveral to become the first American to orbit the Earth. This mission wasn't just a technological triumph—it was a desperately needed morale boost for a nation that felt it was losing the Space Race to the Soviet Union.

The Soviets had already shocked the world by putting Yuri Gagarin in orbit nearly a year earlier, in April 1961. The Americans had managed only suborbital flights—Alan Shepard and Gus Grissom had gone up and come right back down, like cosmic pop flies. The pressure was immense for Glenn's mission to succeed.

Glenn, a 40-year-old Marine test pilot with a crew cut and an aw-shucks demeanor that made him look like he'd stepped out of a Norman Rockwell painting, was about to experience something extraordinary. After several weather-related delays that had the nation on edge, the Atlas rocket roared to life at 9:47 AM EST.

The flight was supposed to be a relatively straightforward three orbits around Earth, taking about 4 hours and 55 minutes. But it became anything but routine. During the first orbit, Glenn reported seeing what he poetically called "fireflies"—mysterious luminous particles floating outside his window. (Later missions revealed these were likely ice crystals or paint flakes illuminated by sunlight.)

Then came the real crisis: Mission Control received a signal indicating that Friendship 7's heat shield—the only thing standing between Glenn and incineration during reentry—might be loose. The landing bag, which deployed between the heat shield and the spacecraft, appeared to have come undone. If the heat shield detached during reentry through the atmosphere, Glenn would be burned alive.

The engineers made a risky decision: keep the retrorocket package attached during reentry, hoping its straps would hold the heat shield in place. Glenn, informed of the problem, remained remarkably calm—a testament to his test pilot training. As he plunged back through the atmosphere, chunks of flaming metal flew past his window. He didn't know if they were pieces of the retrorocket pack or his heat shield disintegrating.

Fortunately, the signal had been false. The heat shield was fine. Glenn splashed down safely in the Atlantic Ocean near Grand Turk Island, where the destroyer USS Noa picked him up.

The impact was immediate and electric. Glenn became an instant national hero. He received a ticker-tape parade in New York City attended by four million people—more than had celebrated Charles Lindbergh. President Kennedy honored him at the White House. America had proven it could compete with the Soviets in space.

Glenn's mission paved the way for the Apollo program and the eventual moon landing. It demonstrated that humans could function effectively in space, operate complex equ

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# February 19, 1473: The Birth of Nicolaus Copernicus

On February 19, 1473, in the bustling merchant city of Toruń, Poland, a child was born who would literally change humanity's place in the universe. Nicolaus Copernicus entered the world during a time when everyone "knew" that Earth sat motionless at the center of everything, with the sun, moon, planets, and stars revolving around us in perfect crystalline spheres. It would take this brilliant astronomer decades to challenge that cosmic certainty.

Born Mikołaj Kopernik to a well-to-do copper merchant family, young Nicolaus had the advantage of education—something that would prove crucial for his revolutionary work. After his father's death, his maternal uncle, Lucas Watzenrode (who would become a powerful bishop), ensured Copernicus received the finest education available, studying at Kraków, Bologna, Padua, and Ferrara, learning mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and canon law.

But it was astronomy that captured his imagination. The prevailing Ptolemaic system, which had dominated for over 1,400 years, placed Earth at the universe's center with increasingly complicated mathematical gymnastics—epicycles upon epicycles—to explain planetary movements. It worked, sort of, but it was inelegant and increasingly inaccurate.

Copernicus spent years making careful observations and performing intricate calculations, eventually arriving at a stunning conclusion: What if Earth wasn't the center at all? What if the sun held that position, with Earth and the other planets orbiting around it? This heliocentric model suddenly made planetary motions much simpler to explain. Venus and Mercury stayed close to the sun because they orbited inside Earth's orbit. The "retrograde motion" of Mars wasn't Mars moving backward at all—it was just Earth overtaking it in its orbit!

The brilliance wasn't just in the idea (ancient Greeks had proposed heliocentrism before) but in Copernicus's mathematical rigor in demonstrating it worked better than the geocentric model. However, he was cautious—perhaps wisely so. His complete work, "De revolutionibus orbium coelestium" (On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres), wasn't published until 1543, allegedly placed in his hands on his deathbed.

The Copernican Revolution, as it became known, didn't just change astronomy—it fundamentally altered humanity's self-perception. We weren't the center of creation after all. This shift in thinking rippled through philosophy, religion, and science, paving the way for Kepler, Galileo, and Newton to build upon his foundation.

Today, we take for granted that Earth is one planet among many, orbiting an average star in an ordinary galaxy. But in 1473, when that baby was born in Toruń, such an idea would have seemed absurd. That this one person, through careful observation, mathematical skill, and intellectual courage, could overturn more than a millennium of accepted wisdom reminds us of the power of questioning assumptions and following evid

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# February 18, 1930: Clyde Tombaugh Discovers Pluto

On February 18, 1930, a 24-year-old farm boy from Kansas made one of the most celebrated astronomical discoveries of the 20th century. Clyde Tombaugh, working at the Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff, Arizona, spotted a tiny, moving speck of light that would soon be announced to the world as the ninth planet: Pluto.

The discovery was the culmination of a painstaking search that had consumed astronomers for decades. It all started with peculiar wobbles in the orbits of Uranus and Neptune, suggesting that some mysterious gravitational force—another planet—lurked in the outer darkness of our solar system. Percival Lowell, the observatory's founder, had become obsessed with finding this "Planet X" before his death in 1916, and the search continued in his name.

Tombaugh's job was monumentally tedious. He used a device called a blink comparator, which rapidly alternated between two photographic plates of the same star field taken several nights apart. His eyes would scan the images—each containing hundreds of thousands of stars—looking for any object that appeared to "jump" between frames, betraying its motion against the fixed stellar background.

For nearly a year, Tombaugh examined plate after plate, his eyes straining over these cosmic snapshots. Then, on that February afternoon, comparing photographs taken on January 23 and January 29, he noticed it: a 15th magnitude object that had shifted position. His heart raced. Could this be it?

After careful verification and additional observations to confirm the object's orbit placed it far beyond Neptune, the Lowell Observatory made the official announcement on March 13, 1930—what would have been Percival Lowell's 75th birthday. The world went wild. An 11-year-old English schoolgirl named Venetia Burney suggested the name "Pluto," after the Roman god of the underworld, and it stuck perfectly—distant, cold, and mysterious, plus its first two letters honored Percival Lowell.

For 76 years, Pluto reigned as our solar system's ninth planet. Tombaugh became famous, completed his education, and enjoyed a long career in astronomy. But Pluto's story took a dramatic turn in 2006 when the International Astronomical Union controversially reclassified it as a "dwarf planet," sparking debates that continue today.

Ironically, we now know that Pluto's discovery was partly luck. The gravitational anomalies that motivated the search were largely observational errors, and Pluto is far too small to have caused them. But that February day remains a testament to human perseverance and the power of careful observation. Tombaugh's discovery fundamentally expanded our understanding of the solar system, eventually leading to the recognition of the Kuiper Belt—a vast region of icy bodies beyond Neptune.

When NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reached Pluto in 2015, it carried some of Clyde Tombaugh's ashes, a fitting tribute to the young man whose keen eyes and stubborn d

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# February 17, 1600: Giordano Bruno Burns for an Infinite Universe

On February 17, 1600, in Rome's Campo de' Fiori, the Dominican friar and philosopher Giordano Bruno was burned at the stake for heresy. His execution stands as one of the most dramatic martyrdoms in the history of science and free thought, though Bruno himself straddled the fascinating boundary between mysticism, philosophy, and what we'd recognize as scientific speculation.

Bruno's crime? Among other theological transgressions, he championed a cosmological vision so radical that it terrified the religious authorities: he proposed that the universe was infinite, filled with countless worlds, and that the stars were distant suns with their own planets, potentially harboring life. In an era when the Catholic Church still clung to the Earth-centered Ptolemaic model, Bruno went far beyond even Copernicus, who had merely suggested the Earth orbited the Sun.

What makes Bruno's story particularly poignant is his absolute refusal to recant. After eight years of imprisonment and interrogation by the Roman Inquisition, he was given multiple opportunities to renounce his views. When the sentence was finally read to him, Bruno defiantly responded: "Perhaps you pronounce this sentence against me with greater fear than I receive it."

Bruno wasn't primarily an astronomer in the empirical sense—he lacked Galileo's telescopic observations or Kepler's mathematical rigor. Instead, he was a visionary who arrived at his cosmic insights through philosophical reasoning and mystical intuition. He studied the works of Copernicus and Nicholas of Cusa, then leapt to breathtaking conclusions: if Earth wasn't the center of everything, why should the Sun be? Why should there be a center at all? Why should the universe have boundaries?

His book *De l'infinito, universo e mondi* (On the Infinite, Universe and Worlds) from 1584 presented ideas that wouldn't be scientifically confirmed for centuries. He imagined an unbounded cosmos teeming with inhabited worlds—a concept called "cosmic pluralism" that remains relevant in today's astrobiology.

The execution was brutal. Bruno was led to the stake with his tongue imprisoned in an iron gag to prevent him from speaking heretical words to the crowd. As the flames consumed him, a monk thrust a crucifix toward his face; Bruno turned away.

For centuries, Bruno was remembered more as a footnote, overshadowed by Galileo's trial three decades later. But modern scientists and philosophers have reclaimed him as a symbol of intellectual courage. In 1889, a statue was erected in Campo de' Fiori on the exact spot of his execution, forever defying the authority that tried to silence him.

The tragic irony? Bruno was essentially right. We now know the universe contains hundreds of billions of galaxies, each with hundreds of billions of stars. We've discovered thousands of exoplanets. The infinite, populated cosmos Bruno died defending is far closer to reality than the cozy,

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# The Birth of ENIAC: When Computers Got Their Big Break (February 16, 1946)

On February 16, 1946, at the University of Pennsylvania's Moore School of Electrical Engineering, the world got its first public glimpse of a beast that would change everything: the **Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer**, better known as ENIAC (pronounced "EE-nee-ak").

Picture this: A room-sized mechanical monster weighing 30 tons, containing 17,468 vacuum tubes (those glowing glass bulbs that would burn out like lightbulbs at the worst possible moments), 7,200 crystal diodes, 1,500 relays, 70,000 resistors, 10,000 capacitors, and approximately 5 million hand-soldered joints. It consumed 150 kilowatts of electricity—enough to dim the lights of West Philadelphia when switched on. The machine was so hot that its operators had to work in a specially ventilated room, and legend has it that when ENIAC was turned on, lights across the city would flicker.

But here's the kicker: this behemoth could perform 5,000 additions per second. Today, your smartphone would laugh at that speed while simultaneously streaming cat videos, but in 1946? This was **witchcraft-level computing power**.

ENIAC was originally conceived to calculate artillery firing tables for the U.S. Army during World War II—mind-numbingly complex ballistic trajectory calculations that would take human "computers" (yes, that was an actual job title for people, mostly women, who did calculations by hand) weeks to complete. ENIAC could do them in hours, or even minutes.

The public demonstration on that February day was a showstopper. The machine calculated the trajectory of an artillery shell in just 20 seconds—faster than the shell itself would have traveled! Attendees watched in amazement as ENIAC computed a problem in nuclear physics that would have taken human calculators 100 years to solve, finishing it in just two hours.

What makes this story even better is that much of ENIAC's actual programming work was done by six brilliant women: Kay McNulty, Betty Jennings, Betty Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Fran Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman. In a frustrating twist of history, they weren't even invited to the celebratory dinner after the public unveiling, and their crucial contributions were largely overlooked for decades. They had to physically rewire the machine to "program" it—no keyboards, no monitors, just plug boards and switches. They essentially invented programming on the fly.

ENIAC wasn't technically the first electronic computer (Britain's Colossus machines, used to crack Nazi codes, predated it but remained classified), but it was the first general-purpose, programmable electronic computer made known to the public. It kicked off the modern computing age, leading directly to the machines that would land humans on the moon, map the human genome, and eventually allow you to argue with strangers on the internet.

The machine ran until October 2, 1955, and in its lifetime, it performed more calculations than

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