A Computer Perspective

Eames, Charles

ISBN 10: 0674156250 / ISBN 13: 9780674156258

Published by Harvard University Press, 1973

About this Item

First Edition, 1973, Harvard University Press. Graphic history of the development of the computer. Created by the office of Charles and Ray Eames, retaining the scarce original dust jacket. Hardcover book & text in VERY GOOD CONDITION, tight, clean, neat, bright with some signs of use & age. Pages & edges slightly toned. Cream cloth boards with black spine & corner design in VERY GOOD CONDITION, slightly toned & soiled, small spots with some signs of use. Scarce dust jacket in FAIR CONDITION, substantial chipping with large losses, tears, edge wear, toned. The first edition jackets are known for how fragile they were. Protected in Mylar.

Seller Inventory # ABE-1789312888719

Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Computer Perspective
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1973
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674156250
• ISBN 13: 9780674156258
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

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.

About the Author

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.