Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
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Page : 440 pages
File Size : 12,32 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
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Page : 444 pages
File Size : 32,81 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Reference
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Page : 456 pages
File Size : 39,28 MB
Release : 1993
Category : American literature
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Author : New York Public Library. Research Libraries
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Page : 562 pages
File Size : 24,61 MB
Release : 1979
Category : Library catalogs
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Page : 1244 pages
File Size : 18,67 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Books on microfilm
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Author : David Young
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Page : 36 pages
File Size : 32,19 MB
Release : 1853
Category : Almanacs, American
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Author : Library of Congress. Catalog Publication Division
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Page : 1238 pages
File Size : 43,5 MB
Release : 1976
Category : Microforms
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Author : David Alan Grier
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 36,15 MB
Release : 2013-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 1400849365
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
Author : C. Albert White
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Page : 794 pages
File Size : 50,27 MB
Release : 1983
Category : Government publications
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Author : James Gleick
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 12,57 MB
Release : 2011-03-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 0307379574
From the bestselling author of the acclaimed Chaos and Genius comes a thoughtful and provocative exploration of the big ideas of the modern era: Information, communication, and information theory. Acclaimed science writer James Gleick presents an eye-opening vision of how our relationship to information has transformed the very nature of human consciousness. A fascinating intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa’s talking drums to the invention of written alphabets; from the electronic transmission of code to the origins of information theory, into the new information age and the current deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. Along the way, Gleick profiles key innovators, including Charles Babbage, Ada Lovelace, Samuel Morse, and Claude Shannon, and reveals how our understanding of information is transforming not only how we look at the world, but how we live. A New York Times Notable Book A Los Angeles Times and Cleveland Plain Dealer Best Book of the Year Winner of the PEN/E. O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award