The Modern City · event 3 of 12

1948

The Baby runs. On 21 June the Manchester Small-Scale Experimental Machine executes the world’s first stored-program computer program. Alan Turing arrives to work on its successor and is living in Wilmslow when he is prosecuted in 1952. A replica is at the Science and Industry Museum.

The The Modern City era

  1. 1917
  2. 1940
  3. 1948
  4. 1958
  5. 1976
  6. 1982
  7. 1992
  8. 1996
  9. 2002
  10. 2017
  11. 2023
  12. 2025

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