Elliott / NRDC 401 Mk I mainframe
- Made:
- 1952-1953 in United Kingdom
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LicenseElliott/NRDC 401 Computer MkI, c.1953 by Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd.. SCM - Computing & Data Processing
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Elliott/NRDC 401 Computer MkI, c.1953 by Elliott Brothers (London) Ltd.. SCM - Computing & Data Processing
Science Museum Group Collection
© The Board of Trustees of the Science Museum
Elliott/NRDC 401 Computer MkI, c.1953
This computer was used for eleven years at the Rothamsted Agricultural Institute for everything from analysis of crop trials and insect damage to work in the mathematics of genetics. It was brought there by Frank Yates, a wartime operational researcher who established Rothamsted as a peacetime statistical computing centre.
Yates had previously worked under the eminent statistician, Ronald Fisher, who laid the foundation for much of modern statistical research, including randomisation, crucial in clinical as well as agricultural trials today. Yates himself tirelessly encouraged the use of statistical analysis in government research.
Details
- Category:
- Computing & Data Processing
- Object Number:
- 1965-445
- Measurements:
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Main Unit of Cabinets with Top Unit, Base Unit and End Panels included:: 2465 mm x 4187 mm x 610 mm, 1118 kg
- type:
- mainframe
- taxonomy:
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- furnishing and equipment
- tools & equipment
- computer
- credit:
- National Research Development Corporation
