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Electric mind / directed by Mimi Soeteman, Lee Thean-Jeje, and Karan Low.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Quirky science ; Series 1, Episode 10
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Computers--History.
- Computers.
- Electronic data processing--History.
- Electronic data processing.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (25 min.)
- Place of Publication:
- Melbourne, Victoria : Looking Glass International, 2011.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Original language in English.
- Summary:
- Explores the history of computers includes early examples of computers, looks at the ancient Antikythera machine and the 19th-century engines made by Charles Babbage. Investigates the invention of the computer and how it evolved into more modern computers; first designed to serve as calculating machines for astronauts and the military, the first examples of the modern-day computer, weighed 27,000 kilograms yet had about as much power as a calculator today. Discusses how the invention of the transistor opened the door to today's personal computer.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed July 1, 2014).
- OCLC:
- 885256419
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