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     1940 to 1949

This page highlights ICT industry developments from 1940 to 1949.

It covers -

• 1940
• 1942
• 1944
• 1946
• 1948

Context is provided by the broader media and communications timeline elsewhere on this site.

    1940

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    1941

• Iowa State College fails to proceed with Atanasoff patent application

    1942

• Mauchly proposal for electronic computer

    1943

• Mauchly's The Use of High-Speed Vacuum Devices for Calculation paper

    1944

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    1945

• ENIAC fully operational
• Raytheon buys Belmont Radio Corporation

    1946

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    1947

• Bardeen and Brattain invent point-contact transistor

    1948

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    1949

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