When Computers Were Human /

When Computers Were Human / / David Alan Grier.

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Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their o...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Grier, David Alan,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013]
©2005
Year of Publication:2013
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (424 p.) :; 50 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction. A Grandmother's Secret Life
  • Part I: Astronomy and the Division of Labor 1682-1880
  • Chapter One. The First Anticipated Return: Halley's Comet 1758
  • Chapter Two. The Children of Adam Smith
  • Chapter Three. The Celestial Factory: Halley's Comet 1835
  • Chapter Four. The American Prime Meridian
  • Chapter Five. A Carpet for the Computing Room
  • Part II: Mass Production and New Fields of Science 1880-1930
  • Chapter Six. Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Machinery 1893
  • Chapter Seven. Darwin's Cousins
  • Chapter Eight. Breaking from the Ellipse: Halley's Comet 1910
  • Chapter Nine. Captains of Academe
  • Chapter Ten. War Production
  • Chapter Eleven. Fruits of the Conflict: Machinery 1922
  • Part III: Professional Computers and an Independent Discipline 1930-1964
  • Chapter Twelve. The Best of Bad Times
  • Chapter Thirteen. Scientific Relief
  • Chapter Fourteen. Tools of the Trade: Machinery 1937
  • Chapter Fifteen. Professional Ambition
  • Chapter Sixteen. The Midtown New York Glide Bomb Club
  • Chapter Seventeen. The Victor's Share
  • Chapter Eighteen. I Alone Am Left to Tell Thee
  • Epilogue. Final Passage: Halley's Comet 1986
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Recurring Characters, Institutions, and Concepts
  • Notes
  • Research Notes and Bibliography
  • Index
  • Illustration Credits

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