Thomas Watson, Sr.: IBM and the Computer Revolution

Traces the beginning of IBM from its beginnings as the National Cash Register under Thomas Watson, Sr., showing how it forged ahead of all others and defined the electronic world.

Robert Nathen Sobel was a professor of business history at Hofstra University for more than forty years and held a Ph.D. from New York University. He is author of more than two dozen books on American economic and business history, including Herbert Hoover and the Onset of the Great Depression and Coolidge: An American Enigma.

Besides producing books, articles, book reviews, scripts for television and audiotapes, he was a weekly columnist for Newsday from 1972 to 1988. In 1998, Sobel was the recipient of the second Special Achievement Sidewise Award for Alternate History for this book, which was republished in 1998.At the time of his death he was a contributing editor to Barron's magazine

He died Wednesday, June 2, 1999 of brain cancer. Professor Sobel was 68.

Sobel is a highly esteemed business historian. Sobel's purpose in any book he wrote was to help his reader learn from them.