OBJECT RECORD / AIM-EQP-1958-001
Electronic Neural Network, Mark I Perceptron
An electronic assembly built at the Cornell Aeronautical Laboratory gave Rosenblatt’s perceptron a physical form.
MATERIAL RECORD
The object, not only the idea.
- Object type
- Neural Network
- Collection
- National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
- Catalogue number
- 1987.0819.01
- Record ID
- nmah_334414
- Place made
- Buffalo, New York, United States
- Institution status
- Not on view · status checked
Physical measurements
CURATORIAL READING
Why it is here
The Smithsonian catalogue dates the Mark I Perceptron to 1958 and describes sensory, association, and response units distributed across cabinets, switches, a plugboard, potentiometers, and meters. The surviving equipment makes an abstract learning proposal inspectable as a manufactured system.
Evidence boundary
This is not a modern deep network or evidence that the machine fulfilled contemporary predictions about human-like intelligence. The Smithsonian record is still subject to revision, says the object is not currently on display, and applies separate reuse conditions to its images; no image is reproduced here.
02 / BUILD A LEARNER
Position in the guided path
A room-scale electronic assembly gives the perceptron a physical form.
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Source trail
National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution ·