The Computer in the United States: From Laboratory to Market, 1930-60

ISBN-13: 9781563242359 / Angielski / Miękka / 1993 / 206 str.

James W. Cortada

Opis

This book studies how a technological innovation -- in this case the computer -- progresses from its origin as an idea in someone's mind to its eventual manifestation as a useable and marketable consumer product.

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Issues and the Debate; Chapter 2 Technical Origins of the Computer; Chapter 3 Analog, Electromechanical, and Digital Machines; Chapter 4 Vendors’ Initial Responses to the Computer; Chapter 5 The Public and Customers Meet the Computer; Chapter 6 Patterns in Office Equipment Technology;

O autorze

James W. Cortada is a Senior Research Fellow at the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota.