Technology for Modelling Electrical Analogies, Engineering Practice, and the Development of Analogue Computing /

• Main Author: Care, Charles (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer simulation.; Computers.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Simulation and Modeling.

Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is a spectrum of understanding around...