Early Computing in Britain Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 - 1958 /

• Main Author: Lavington, Simon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computers.; Technology-History.; History.; History of Computing.; History of Technology.; History of Science.

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Ltd. - producer of the first commercially-available computers - and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal reminis...