17K Vacuum Tubes That Burned Out! The World's First Electronic Computer!

Six women programmed the world's first electronic computer in 1945 while keeping it completely secret. The machine weighed 30 tons, filled an entire room, and relied on 17,468 vacuum tubes that burned out so frequently the team spent hours replacing them daily.
-
SUBSCRIBE FIRST!
-
This video reveals how these forgotten mathematicians built ENIAC to calculate artillery trajectories that helped win WWII, the constant engineering nightmares they battled with failing components and massive power consumption, and exactly why their groundbreaking contributions vanished from history books for decades.

Discover the untold story of ENIAC—the 30-ton electronic giant that changed computing forever and the six brilliant women who made it work.

In 1945, while WWII raged on, engineers built an "impossible" machine: 17,468 vacuum tubes consuming enough power to light a neighborhood, filling an entire room at the University of Pennsylvania. But hardware was only half the battle. Six women mathematicians—Kathleen McNulty, Jean Jennings, Frances Snyder, Marlyn Wescoff, Frances Bilas, and Ruth Lichterman—invented programming from scratch, creating techniques like subroutines and parallel processing that we still use today.

What you'll learn in this video:
✅ How ENIAC nearly failed before proving everyone wrong
✅ The counterintuitive engineering breakthrough that made it reliable
✅ Why these pioneering women were erased from history as "refrigerator ladies"
✅ ENIAC's secret first mission: hydrogen bomb calculations, not artillery tables

Your smartphone has billions of times more power than ENIAC, yet that room-filling monster proved electronic computing was possible—launching the digital revolution we live in today.

Drop a comment: Which other historical figures do you think got written out of their own stories? Hit subscribe for more untold stories behind world-changing inventions!
#eniac #ComputerHistory #WomenInSTEM #TechHistory #ForgottenHistory