Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era The Mechanical and Electrical Ages /

• Main Author: Tympas, Aristotle (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computers.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.

Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key d...