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ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 440
Book Description
Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Main part
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Place index
Author: A Checklist of American Imprints for 1820-1829
Author: Richard H. ShoemakerPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
National Register of Microform Masters
Author: A Checklist of American Imprints for ...
Author: A History of the Rectangular Survey System
Author: C. Albert WhitePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 794
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.
Sherman Genealogy Including Families of Essex, Suffolk and Norfolk, England
Author: Thomas Townsend ShermanPublisher: New York : T.A. Wright
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Category : England
Languages : en
Pages : 592
Book Description
Hutchins' Improved Almanac and Ephemeris, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: David YoungPublisher:
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Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description