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- 020 __ |a 9781527528222 (Hardback)
- 100 1_ |a Arbel, Alexander.
- 245 10 |a Routes to the information revolution / |c Alexander Arbel ; edited by Joseph Agassi.
- 260 __ |a Newcastle upon Tyne : |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing, |c 2019.
- 300 __ |a 425 p. ; |c 21 cm.
- 520 __ |a This book is a precise and comprehensive history of the digital computer. It is the first collection of available information about the digital computer, beginning with the philosophical and logical advancements in the early 20th century that led to it. The book explores the histories and stories of the computer, tracing its roots and routes. It examines and analyzes commonly accepted views on the digital computer and its development, and offers clearer and more accurate alternatives to them. Its approach, though dealing with the introduction and development of the digital computer, is applicable to the history of technology in general.The central question considered here is, why were the automatic digital program-controlled calculating devices developed simultaneously in Germany, the USA and the UK during the period 1935-1945? Astonishingly, the technologies, ideas, calculating means and calculating techniques existed and were available long before the development of the automatic digital program-controlled calculating device.
- 650 _0 |a Computers |x History.
- 700 1_ |a Agassi, Joseph.