By the time you have read this far you should have performed more than 16,000 additions and subtractions, or more than 2,000 multiplication and division operations if you could figure as fast as this new "electronic brain" recently installed at the General Electric Company's Aircraft Gas and Turbine Development Laboratory at Evendale near here. Dr. Herbert R. J. Grosch, who heads the company's numerical analysis unit here, explained that it is not uncommon for a complex engineering problem to require as many as eight million calculations steps. It would take a mathematician with a desk calculator over seven years to get a solution. The "electronic brain" can provide the solution to this sort of calculations in ten or fifteen minutes. Dr. Grosch is shown above with an assistant, Miss Janet Henchie. International Business Machine Corp. builds the big computer.

General Electric Company1953-11-13