Who Invented The Computer?

Snedden, Robert. (Author). Learning, Britannica Digital. (Added Author).

Summary: Who Invented the Computer? looks back at the long history of computers and shows how the digital world in which we live today was created.

Record details

ISBN: 9781615356430 (electronic bk.)
ISBN: 1615356436 (electronic bk.)
Physical Description: electronic resource
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1 online resource (133 p.)
Publisher: Chicago : Britannica Digital Learning, 2012.

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Cover Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; It all adds up!; Calculators; A revolution; Babbage and his engines; Information processing; Calculators to computers; Relays and switches; Colossus goes to war; ENIAC; Crucial developments; Baby and Whirlwind; The transistor; UNIVAC; The microchip arrives; GUI and the mouse; Internet dawn; The microprocessor; Computing gets personal; A world connected; Glossary; Further information; Index.

Source of Description Note:

Description based on print version record.