The Genealogy of ARL

In May 1997, ARL's historian produced "The Genealogy of ARL." This report provides a brief organizational history of ARL (through 1996) and its various components prior to ARL's activation.

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The Computer

The Ballistics Research Laboratory, a predecessor organization to ARL, invented and developed the first multipurpose, electronic, programmable computer in conjunction with the University of Pennsylvania Moore School of Engineering. The ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Calculator) was developed at the end of WWII originally to speed the calculation of artillery firing tables, but it became the progenitor of all the computers that we use today, from mainframes to laptops.