| ROYAL AIRCRAFT ESTABLISHMENT, FARNBOROUGH
The RAE was the only government establishment, apart from the NPL, to develop an important computing centre during the late 1940s. Hollerith machines were installed in 1944 as the basis for a Computing Laboratory, which was under the direction of R.A. Fairthorne. A Mathematical Services Department was soon set up, and by taking on outside work it became a wellknown and influential computing centre in the late 1940s and early 1950s.
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