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The First Computer Program

Patented: History of Inventions

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The Forefather, the Ground Zero of Everything Else

Clara Dance wrote the first code to model neutrons in order to detonate a hydrogen bomb. She also helped rewire the ENIAC into its configuration as this first properly programmable computer. So we can thank the Manhattan Project and hydrogen bombs and nuclear weapons for our current smartphones.

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