The suburb they lived in was an upper middle class community composed of technical elites as it was in close proximity to several major scientific facilities including the Carnegie Institute and the National Bureau of Standards (upenn). Mauchly exhibited the signs of having a technical mind set in his adolescent years. As a boy whenever the neighbors had trouble with the wiring in their houses (McCartney), they would often call young Mauchly. At the age of 11 he wired a sensor into one of the steps (McCartney) of the staircase leading up to his room. When one of his parents stepped on the step, a warning light would blink in Mauchlys room so he would have time to turn out his lights and pretend to be asleep before they opened his door. His father was certainly a role model for him, but as Sebastian was often away from home on research expeditions, neighbors who were scientists, engineers, and professionals were also role models for young John. He graduated from The McKinley Technical High School of Washington, D.C. in 1925. On the strength of his academic achievements he received the Engineering Scholarship of the State of Maryland (upenn), a
Mauchly as the president was in charge of identifying the possible uses of computers, while Eckert the vice-president assumed the task of designing a new computer system. Mauchly found the Census Bureau very receptive to the idea of a large computer to process data (pbs). In 1948 the company was officially incorporated as the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Corporation, and work began on the UNIVAC for the Census Bureau. Eckert and Mauchly sold their company to Remington Rand in 1950, and in 1951 the first UNIVAC computer was delivered to the Census Bureau (upenn). The UNIVAC processed at almost 100,000 additions per second (upenn). Mauchly and Eckert had designed it with a strong emphasis on input output capabilities, since it was to be used specifically for data processing. The introduction of the UNIVAC is usually regarded as the beginning of the computer industry in that it was the first computer that was for commercial sale (Keiger). Mauchly stayed with Remington Rand until 1959. After he left he set up his own consulting firm, and in the late 1960s shifted his focus towards quantitative project planning and management techniques such as the Critical Path Method (upenn).
gnetism section at the Carnegie Institute (upenn). The suburb they lived in was an upper middle class community composed of technical elites as it was in close proximity to several major scientific facilities including the Carnegie Institute and the National Bureau of Standards (upenn). Mauchly exhibited the signs of having a technical mind set in his adolescent years. As a boy whenever the neighbors had trouble with the wiring in their houses (McCartney), they would often call young Mauchly. At the age of 11 he wired a sensor into one of the steps (McCartney) of the staircase leading up to his room. When one of his parents stepped on the step, a warning light would blink in Mauchlys room so he would have time to turn out his lights and pretend to be asleep before they opened his door. His father was certainly a role model for him, but as Sebastian was often away from home on research expeditions, neighbors who were scientists, engineers, and professionals were also role models for young John. He graduated from The McKinley Technical High School of Washington, D.C. in 1925. On the strength of his academic achievements he received the Engineering Scholarship of the State of Maryland (upenn), and in the fall of 1925 he enrolled at John Hopkins University.
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