Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era The Mechanical
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 exa
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Aristotle Tympas
Calculation and Computation in the Preelectronic Era The Mechanical and Electrical Ages
History of Computing Founding Editor Martin Campbell-Kelly, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK Series Editor Gerard Alberts, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Advisory Board Jack Copeland, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand Ulf Hashagen, Deutsches Museum, Munich, Germany Valérie Schafer, CNRS, Paris, France John V. Tucker, Swansea University, Swansea, UK Jeffrey R. Yost, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA
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Aristotle Tympas
Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era The Mechanical and Electrical Ages
Aristotle Tympas National and Kapodestrian University of Athens Athens, Greece
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