Milestones in Analog and Digital Computing / by Herbert Bruderer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bruderer, Herbert., Author.

Contributor:

SpringerLink (Online service)

Series:

Computer Science (SpringerNature-11645)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computers-History.

Computer industry.

Education-Data processing.

History of Computing.

The Computer Industry.

Computers and Education.

Local Subjects:

History of Computing.

The Computer Industry.

Computers and Education.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (XXX, 2053 pages) : 715 illustrations, 626 illustrations in color.

Edition:

3rd ed. 2020.

Contained In:

Springer Nature eBook

Place of Publication:

Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2020.

System Details:

text file PDF

Summary:

This Third Edition is the first English-language edition of the award-winning Meilensteine der Rechentechnik; illustrated in full color throughout in two volumes. The Third Edition is devoted to both analog and digital computing devices, as well as the world's most magnificient historical automatons and select scientific instruments (employed in astronomy, surveying, time measurement, et cetera). It also features detailed instructions for analog and digital mechanical calculating machines and instruments, and is the only such historical book with comprehensive technical glossaries of terms not found in print or in online dictionaries. The book also includes a very extensive bibliography based on the literature of numerous countries around the world. Meticulously researched, the author conducted a worldwide survey of science, technology and art museums with their main holdings of analog and digital calculating and computing machines and devices, historical automatons and selected scientific instruments in order to describe a broad range of masterful technical achievements. Also covering the history of mathematics and computer science, this work documents the cultural heritage of technology as well.

Contents:

Volume 1: 1. Introduction

2. Basic Principles

3. The Coming of Age of Arithmetic

4. Classification of Calculating Aids and Related Instruments

5. Chronology

6. Pioneers in Calculating and Computing Technology

7. Conferences and Institutes

8. Global Overview of Early Digital Computers

9. Museums and Collections

10. The Antikythera Mechanism

11. Schwilgués Calculating Machines

12. The Thomas Arithmometer

13. The Curta

14. Slide Rules

15. Historical Automatons and Robots

16. Mechanical Calculating Aids

17. Technological, Economic, Social and Cultural History

18. Preserving the Technical Heritage

19. Operating Instructions

Index of Persons, Places and Subjects

Volume 2: 1. Who Was the Inventor of the Computer?

2. Computer Development in Germany

3. Computer Development in the United Kingdom

4. Computer Development in Switzerland

5. Documents Relevant to the Z4 and Ermeth

6. The Global Evolution of Computer Technology

7. Glossary of the History of Technology: German-English

8. Glossary of the History of Technology: English-German

Bibliography for the History of Science and Technology

Index of Persons, Places and Subjects.

Other Format:

Printed edition:

ISBN:

978-3-030-40974-6

9783030409746

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