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2 unusual facts about Honeywell v. Sperry Rand


Clark R. Mollenhoff

Mollenhoff's book gives the Atanasoff perspective of the 1973 federal court decision of Honeywell v. Sperry Rand that ruled the ENIAC computer patent invalid, and increased attention to Atanasoff's work.

Earl R. Larson

Correspondence and newspaper clippings relating to the Honeywell v. Sperry Rand trial and recognition of John V. Atanasoff as the inventor of the electronic digital computer.


Arthur Burks

This endeavor was never successful; in the 1973 decision to Honeywell v. Sperry Rand, U.S. District Judge Earl R. Larson ruled—even as he invalidated the patent—that only Mauchly and Eckert had invented the ENIAC, and that Burks, Sharpless, and Shaw could not be added as inventors.


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