Kardashev index
0.648
Based on primary energy power · Type I = 1
AccelerationFour-dimensional view81 years agoThe Transistor and the Computer
1946-02-15
ENIAC Unveiled
ENIAC, a general-purpose electronic computer, is publicly unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania.
Art style · 1940s black-and-white news photography
Origin of Life on EarthDinosaurs and MammalsAI Agents
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2.41Bpeople
1/3 of today
3×10¹²W
1/7 of today
1.1×10⁻³floating-point operations per second per dollar (FLOP/s per $, nominal dollars)
1/76.45T of today
0.02 seconds
1 times faster than today
990km/h
1/40 of today
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Hahn and Strassmann discover that uranium nuclei can split. Source
Chicago Pile-1 achieves the first man-made self-sustaining chain reaction. Source
The Trinity test detonates the first atomic bomb in New Mexico. Source
ENIAC, a general-purpose electronic computer, is publicly unveiled at the University of Pennsylvania. Source
Bardeen and Brattain at Bell Labs build the point-contact transistor. Source
Shannon publishes "A Mathematical Theory of Communication": information becomes measurable. Source
Turing publishes "Computing Machinery and Intelligence", proposing the "imitation game". Source
Watson and Crick publish the molecular structure of DNA in Nature. Source
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