Description

Jay Wright Forrester and Stephen H. Dodd Jr. examine a memory storage tube. Stamp on verso reads "M.I.T. Historical Collections".

Original Caption: "This is the final construction process on a new radio tube with a memory for up to 400 digits, developed in the Servomechanisms Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Air is removed while the tube is "cured" in this oven-like apparatus. Jay W. Forrester, director of the project (left), is checking tube elements with Stephen H. Dodd, Jr. The new tube, literally a storehouse for numbers, is expected to be an important component of many computers and other mechanical information-handling systems. # # # # From the News Service, Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass."