A Computer Perspective
by Eames, Charles; Eames, RayEdition: Revised
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 1990-09-01
Publisher(s): Harvard Univ Pr
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Summary
A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering, and science.The book is based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.
Table of Contents
| Introduction | |
| Prologue | |
| Calculating Machines Statistical Machines Logical Automata 1890s The 1890 Census | |
| First Russian Census | |
| Galton: The Measure of Man | |
| Finger Prints | |
| John Gore at the Prudential | |
| Marquand's Logic Machine | |
| Pastore: Logic on Wheels | |
| Mental Calculation | |
| Leacute;on Bolleacute;e | |
| The ""Millionaire"" | |
| The Comptometer and the Burroughs | |
| Calculation by Measurement 1900s The Dynamo and the Virgin | |
| Moxon's Master | |
| Alfred Binet: The Scale of Intelligence | |
| Punch Cards for Commerc | |
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