Author: Andrew BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Phinney's Calendar, Or, Western Almanac, for the Year of Our Lord ...
Author: Andrew BeersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Almanacs, American
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
A Treasury of New England Folklore
Author: Benjamin Albert BotkinPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Folklore
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
576 stories - 50 songs.
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Bibliography of American Imprints to 1901: Subject index
Author: August Flower and German Syrup
Author: 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.
The Story of Cooperstown
Author: Ralph BirdsallPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cooperstown (N.Y.)
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The Profession of Authorship in America, 1800-1870
Author: William CharvatPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 9780231070775
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
This study focuses on the complex relations between author, publisher and contemporary reading public in 19th-century America; in particular, the emergence of Irving and Cooper as America's first successful literary entrepreneurs, how Poe's and Melville's successes and failures affected their writing, the popularization of poetry in the 1830s and 1840s, the role of the literary magazine in the 1840s and 1850s, and the beginnings of book promotion. It pays particular attention to the way social and economic forces helped to shape literary works.
AB Bookman's Weekly
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 1020
Book Description
The History of Winthrop, Massachusetts
Author: William H. ClarkPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Winthrop (Mass.)
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description