Several popular works have dealt with the question of who invented the computer, and novelist Smiley has obviously read and deeply pondered them all. She emerges from her immersion in binary arithmetic, vacuum tubes, and eccentric geniuses with a scintillating narrative synthesis that agrees with th
The Man Who Invented the Computer- The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer
โ Scribed by Smiley, Jane
- Book ID
- 106956373
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 4 MB
- Category
- Fiction
No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.
๐ SIMILAR VOLUMES
*Who Invented the Computer?* looks back at the long history of computers and shows how the digital world in which we live today was created.
Philo Taylor Farnsworth was an American inventor and television pioneer. Although he made many contributions that were crucial to the early development of all-electronic television, he is best known for inventing the first fully functional and complete all-electronic television system, and for being
Terry Nation was one of the most successful writers for television to come out of Britain. Survivors, the show that was his vision of a post-apocalyptic England, so haunted audiences in the 1970s that the BBC revived it over thirty years on. Blake's 7 endures as a cult sci-fi classic and his most fe
**A "skillful and literate" (*New York Times Book Review*) biography of the persecuted genius who helped create the modern computer.** To solve one of the great mathematical problems of his day, Alan Turing proposed an imaginary computer. Then, attempting to break a Nazi code during World War II, h