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  title info:
    title: Technology for Modelling
    sub title: Electrical Analogies, Engineering Practice, and the Development of Analogue Computing
  name:
    name part: Care, Charles.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xxk
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XVIII, 203 p. online resource.
  abstract: 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 what constitutes analogue computing. To understand the relationship between analogue and digital computing, and what this means for users today, the history must consider how the technology is used. Technology for Modelling investigates the technologies, the concepts, and the applications of analogue computing. The text asserts that analogue computing must be thought of as not just a computing technology, but also as a modelling technology, demonstrating how the history of analogue computing can be understood in terms of the parallel themes of calculation and modelling. The book also includes a number of detailed case studies of the technology's use and application. Topics and features: Discusses the meaning of analogue computing and its significance in history, and describes the main differences between analogue and digital computing Provides a chronology of analogue computing, based upon the two major strands of calculation and modeling Examines the wider relationship between computing and modelling, and discusses how the theme of modelling fits within the history of analogue computing Describes how the history of analogue computing evolved through a number of stages of use Presents illustrative case studies on analogue modelling in academic research, oil reservoir modelling, aeronautical design, and meteorology General readers and researchers in the field of history of computing - as well as history of science more generally - will find this book a fascinating insight into the historical use and evolution of technology. The volume provides a long-needed historical framework and context for these core computing technologies. Dr. Charles Care is a senior software enginee…
  table of contents: Modelling, Calculation and Analogy: The Themes of Analogue Computing -- Introduction: Analogue Computers in the History of Computing -- A Multi-Stranded Chronology of Analogue Computing -- Modelling Technology and the History of Analogue Computing -- Origins of Analogue: Conceptual Association and Entanglement -- Analogue Computing in Use: A Selection of Contexts -- Analogue Computers in British Higher Education -- Analogue Computers and Oil Reservoir Modelling -- Analogue–Digital Decisions in British Aeronautical Research -- The Analogue Dishpan: Physical Modelling Versus Numerical Calculation in Meteorology -- Conclusion.
  note: by Charles Care.
  subject:
    topic: Computer science
  subject:
    topic: Computer simulation
  subject:
    topic: Computers
  subject:
    topic: Computer Science
  subject:
    topic: History of Computing
  subject:
    topic: Simulation and Modeling
  classification: QA76.17
  classification: 004.09
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: History of Computing
  identifier: 9781848829480
  identifier: http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-948-0
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