The Computers That Made the World.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Danton, Tim.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Electronic digital computers--History.

Electronic digital computers.

Computers--History.

Computers.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (255 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

La Vergne : Raspberry Pi Press, 2025.

Summary:

This book tells the story of the birth of the technological world we now live in.It chronicles how computers reshaped World War II.And it does it all through the origins of 12 influential computers built between 1939 and 1950.In 1940, a computer was someone who ploughed through gruelling calculations each day.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Timeline – From 1936 to 1950

Introduction – Charles Babbage – inventor of the first mechanical computer

Chapter 1: ABC – The Atanasoff-Berry computer

Chapter 2: Zuse Z3 – An early electromechanical computer

Chapter 3: Complex Number Calculator – Building the foundations of digital computers

Chapter 4: Colossus – Code-breaking computer that helped win a World War

Chapter 5: Harvard Mark I – Another pioneering electromechanical computer

Chapter 6: ENIAC – The first programmable digital computer

Chapter 7: Manchester Baby – The first electronic stored-program computer

Chapter 8: EDSAC – Pioneering British computer

Chapter 9: EDVAC, UNIVAC, & Princeton IAS – Three computers with shared origins

Chapter 10: Pilot ACE – Vacuum-tube powered early computing

Chapter 11: What happened next – The growth of commercial computing

Timeline – From 1951 to 1965 Generated by AI.

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ISBN:

1-916868-08-8

OCLC:

1525622443