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A Computer Perspective: Background to the Computer Age, New Edition
Contributor(s): Eames, Charles (Author), Eames, Ray (Author), Fleck, Glen (Editor)
ISBN: 0674156269     ISBN-13: 9780674156265
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: September 1990
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Annotation: A splendid, graphic history of the origin and development of the computer, this classic work is a timeless record of the most profound technological revolution in the history of humankind. The book's decade-by-decade format is highlighted with hundreds of illustrations, memorabilia and artifacts collected from around the world. Halftones and illustrations.
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BISAC Categories:
- Science | History
- Computers
- Technology & Engineering | Inventions
Dewey: 001.609
LCCN: 90-38099
Physical Information: 0.5" H x 8.76" W x 8.78" (1.05 lbs) 176 pages
 
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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 (IBM) 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.

Contributor Bio(s): Cohen, I. Bernard: - I. Bernard Cohen was Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, and one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.