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A Computer perspective

by the office of Charles & Ray Eames. Edited by Glen Fleck. Produced by Robert Staples. Introd. by I. Bernard Cohen

Harvard University Press, 1973

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"Based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines Corporation."

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Description

A Computer Perspective is an illustrated essay on the origins and first lines of development of the computer. The complex network of creative forces and social pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering, and science. The book is based on an exhibition conceived and assembled for International Business Machines Corporation. Like the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually display more true history (in relation to the computer) than many more conventional presentations of the development of science and technology.

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  • NCID
    BA27620815
  • ISBN
    • 0674156250
  • LCCN
    72088399
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Cambridge
  • Pages/Volumes
    174 p.
  • Size
    23 x 23 cm
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