Grier David Alan:
When Computers Were Human
University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2007
Paperback, 424 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780691133829
ISBN-10: 0691133824
List price: £13.50
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When Computers Were Human
Offers an introduction to the world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. This book tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides readers through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration.

