Synopsis
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.
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I. Bernard Cohen, Victor S. Thomas Professor of the History of Science, Emeritus, at Harvard University, is one of the founders of the modern study of the history of science.
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A COMPUTER PERSPECTIVE. A Sequence Of 20th Century Ideas, Events, And Artifacts From The History Of The Information Machine.
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Hard Cover. Condition: Fine. 174 pages, illustrated in b&w. "This volume chronicles the influence and interplay of technological and social forces, inventive genius, and economic needs in the evolution of the computer. A continuing pictorial display, decade-by-decade, shows hundreds of inventions, documents, memorabilia and artifacts collected around the world." FINE HARDCOVER, FAIR DUST JACKET. Dust jacket protected with a clear plastic acid-free jacket. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Seller Inventory # 037460