James S Small

The Analogue Alternative

The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975

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Produktbeschreibung

From the late 1940's to the 1970's, analogue technology was seen as a genuine alternative to the digital computer, and the two competing approaches ran parallel with each other. "The Analogue Alternative describes and analyzes the development, commercialization and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2001
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 158mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780415271196
• ISBN-10: 0415271193
• Artikelnr.: 21865834

Autorenporträt

James S. Small has worked as a researcher and lecturer at the University of Manchester in England and at the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1. Analogue Computing Devices in the 19th and Early 20th
Centuries2. The Origins, Form and Function of Electronic Analogue Devices
and Computers, 1937-19503. Electronic Analogue Computer Development,
1945-1955: Military Programmes, Aeronautics and Electronics4.
Commercialisation, Hybridisation and Competition: the Electronic and Hybrid
Computer Industry in the USA, 1945-19755. The Origins, Commericialisation
and Decline of Electronic Analogue and Hybrid Computing in Britain,
1945-19756. Electronic Analogue Computers and Engineering Culture7.
Negotiating a Place for Electronic Analogue Computers: the Analogue Versus
Digital DebateConclusion