Williams tube memory

Modern · Computation · 1946

TL;DR

Williams tube memory - requires enrichment with adjacent possible narrative

Williams tube memory - requires enrichment

What Had To Exist First

Preceding Inventions

Cathode-ray tube Secondary emission

What This Enabled

Inventions that became possible because of Williams tube memory:

Stored-program computer

Biological Patterns

Mechanisms that explain how this invention emerged and spread:

Niche Construction

Related Inventions

Stored-program computer Secondary emission Cathode-ray tube

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