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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 1008
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Senate documents
Author: Mr. Peffer, from the Committee on Pensions, Submitted the Following Report. [To Accompany H. R. 3113.]
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Author: Journal of the Senate of the United States of America, Being the Second Session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, Begun and Held at the City of Washington. December 7, 1896
Author: Congressional Record
Author: Congressional Record
Author: United States. CongressPublisher:
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Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
Book Description
Senate and House Journals
Author: Kansas. Legislature. SenatePublisher:
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Category : Kansas
Languages : en
Pages : 784
Book Description
The History of Early Terre Haute from 1816 to 1840
Author: Blackford ConditPublisher:
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Category : Terre Haute (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
Outdoor Program Administration
Author: Association of Outdoor Recreation and EducationPublisher: Human Kinetics
ISBN: 0736075372
Category : Sports & Recreation
Languages : en
Pages : 636
Book Description
"Whether you are working in a public, private, or nonprofit setting, Outdoor Program Administration: Principles and Practices is your essential guide as an outdoor program administrator. Using this reference, you will improve your skills and enhance your programs." -- Back cover
The Ground-water Resources of Mississippi
Author: Lloyd William StephensonPublisher:
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Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 854
Book Description
When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan GrierPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
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.