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...

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.