James S. Small

The Analogue Alternative (eBook, PDF)

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

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

The Analogue Alternative tracks the development, commercialisation and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 336
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. Juni 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134699025
• Artikelnr.: 42669825

Autorenporträt

James S. Small has worked as a researhcer 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