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Vannevour Bush, an electrical engineer at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), created the first modern computer
in 1930s. He and a team from MIT's called 'differential equations', required to solve some engineering problems, began work
on a device to solve these equations automatically. In 1935, the second version of device, dubbed the 'differential analyzer',
was unveiled: weighed 100 tons contained 150 motors, and hundred miles of wires connecting relays and vacuum tubes. 3 of the
machines were built for military purposes. Over next 15 years, MIT built several new versions of computer. In 1950s, the first
reliable design for fully electronic analog computers were being assumed by faster and more accurate digital computers.
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