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- Thomas J. Bergin
- © Computing History Museum
- American University
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- Bunch and Hellemans, The Timetables of Technology, Simon & Schuster,
1993
- A major source of information about hieroglyphics can be found at:
- 195.8.72.23/numbers.htm ©Mark Millmore
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- Michael R. Williams, A History of Computing Technology, IEEE Computer
Society Press, 2nd edition, 1997
- www.arithmeum.de, a museum for the history of calculation, in Bonn,
Germany (from the collection of Proof. Bernhard Korte, University of
Bonn)
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- Doron Swade, Charles Babbage and his Calculating Engines, Science
Museum, London, 1991
- Doron Swade, The Cogwheel Brain, Charles Babbage and the Quest to build
the First Computer, Little, Brown and Company, 2000
- J.A.N.Lee, Computer Pioneers, IEEE Press, 1995
- Brian Randell, ed., The Origins of Digital Computers, Selected Papers,
Springer, 1973
- Bunch & Hellemans, The Timetables of Technology, Simon and Schuster,
1993
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- Michael Lindgren, Glory and Failure, The Difference Engines of Johann
Mueller, Charles Babbage, and Georg and Edvard Scheutz, MIT Press, 1990
- William Aspray, ed., Computing Before Computers, Iowa State University
Press, 1990
- Aspray and Campbell-Kelly, Computer: A History of the Information Machine, BasicBooks, 1996
- Video: The Machine That Changed the World, first 10 minutes
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- Anthony Hyman, Charles Babbage: pioneer of the computer, Princeton U
Press, 1982
- Maboth Mosley, Irascible genius: a life of Charles Babbage, inventor,
London, Hutchinson, 1964
- Dorothy Stein, Ada: a life and legacy, MIT Press, 1985
- Doris Langley Moore, Ada, Countess of Lovelace: Byron’s legitimate
daughter, London, John Murray, 1977
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- Geoffrey D. Austrian, HERMAN HOLLERITH: Forgotten Giant of Information
Processing, Columbia U. Press, 1982
(definitive work)
- Biles, et al, “Herman Hollerith: Inventor, Manager, Entrepreneur -- A
Centennial Remembrance,” Journal of Management, Vol. 15, No.4, 1989
- Keith Reid-Green, “The History of Census Tabulation,” Scientific
American, February 1989
- Bache, IBM’s Early Computers, MIT Press, 1986.
- Campbell-Kelly in Aspray, Computing Before Computers, Iowa State U.
Press, 1990
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- William Rogers, THINK, A biography of the Watsons and IBM, Stein and
Day, 1969
- Belden and Belden, The Lengthening Shadow: The Life of Thomas J. Watson,
Little Brown, 1962
- Thomas Watson, Jr.., Father, Son
and Company, Bantam, 19908
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- National Geographic Society, Inventors and Discoverers, Changing Our
World, 1988
- Steven Lubar, Information Appliances, 1994
- James R. Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic
Origins of the Information Society, Harvard U. Press, 1986
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- James W. Cortada, Before the Computer, Princeton University Press, 1993
- Michael Williams, “Early Calculators,” in Aspray, ed., Computing Before
Computers, Iowa State University Press, 1990
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- John Brooks, Telephone, The First Hundred Years, Harper & Row, 1975
- Edwin Darby, It All Adds Up, the Growth of the Victor Comptometer
Company, Victor Comptometer Company, 1968
- Stanley C. Allyn, My half century with NCR, McGraw-Hill, 1967
- Bryan Morgan, Total to Date, Burroughs Adding Machine London, 1953
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- “Analog Computing Devices,” by Allan G. Bromley in William Aspray, ed. Computing
Before Computers, Iowa State U. Press, 1990
- “The Analog Animals,” in Michael R. Williams, History of Computing
Technology, IEEE Press, 1997
- J. Crank, The Differential Analyzer, Longmans, Green, 1947
- D.R. Hartree, Calculating Instruments and Machines, U. Of Illinois
Press, 1953
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- Paul E. Ceruzzi, “Electronic Calculators,” in Aspray, Computing Before
Computers, Iowa State University Press, 1990
- Paul E. Ceruzzi, Reckoners: The Prehistory of the Digital Computer, from
Relays to the Stored Program Concept, 1935-1945, Greenwood Press, 1983
- Brian Randell, The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers,
Springer, 1982
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- Stibitz, “Automatic Computing Machinery,” in Randell, Origins....,
(essay written in 1940)
- Stibitz, “Automatic Computing Machinery,” in Annals, 4/ 2 (April 1982)
1947 and 1950 memos
- Stibitz, “Early Computers,” in N. Metropolis, A History of Computing in
the Twentieth Century, Academic Press, 1980
- Charles J. Bashe, et al, IBM’s Early Computers, MIT Press, 1986
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- www.arithmeum.de
- www.hnf.de/museum
- http://irb.cs.tu-berlin.de/~zuse/Konrad_Zuse
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- Konrad Zuse, The Computer, My Life,
- I. Bernard Cohen, Howard Aiken: Portrait of a Computer Pioneer, MIT
Press, 1999J.A.N. Lee, Computer Pioneers, IEEE Press, 1995
- Charlene W. Billings, Grace Hopper, Navy Admiral & Computer Pioneer,
Enslow Publishers, 1989.
- Herbert R. J. Grosch, Computer: Bit Slices From a Life, Third Millennium
Books, 1991
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- J.V. Atanasoff, “Computing Machine for the Solution of large Systems of
Linear Algebraic Equations,” (August 1940) in
Randell (Ed.), The Origins of Digital Computers, Selected Papers,
Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1973
- J.V. Atanasoff, “Advent of Electronic Digital Computing,” Annals,
Vol..6, No.3 (July 1984)
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- Saul Rosen, “The Origins of Modern Computing, ACM Computing Reviews,
Sept. 1960
- Joel Shurkin, Engines of the Mind, The Evolution of the Computer from
Mainframes to Microprocessors, W.W. Norton, 1984
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August 1988
- Allan R. Mackintosh, “The First Electronic Computer,” Physics Today,
March 1987
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- R.K. Richards, Electronic Digital Systems, New York, Wiley (1966)
- ACM Computing Reviews, September 1990
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- Clark R. Mollenhoff, ATANASOFF, Forgotten Father of the Computer, Iowa
State University Press, 1988.
- Alice R. And Arthur W. Burks, The First Electronic Computer: The
Atanasoff Story, U. of Michigan Press, 1988
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- Nancy Stern, From ENIAC to UNIVAC, An Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly
Computers, Digital Press, 1981
[major research effort]
- Herman H. Goldstine, The Computer, from Pascal to von Neumann, Princeton
University Press, 1972
- Goldstine was a participant
- N. Metropolis, et.al., A History of Computing in the Twentieth Century,
Academic Press, 1980
- Brian Randell, ed., The Origins of Digital Computers, Springer-Verlag,
1973
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- Arthur W. Burks and Alice R. Burks, “The ENIAC: First General-Purpose
Electronic Computer,” Annals, Vol.3, No.4 [participant]
- Barkley Fritz, “ENIAC--A Problem Solver,” Annals, Vol.16, No. 1
(1994) [worked on ENIAC]
- Barkley Fritz, “The Women of ENIAC,” Annals, Vol.18, No.3 (Fall 1996)
- Herman H. Goldstine, “Computers at the University of Pennsylvania’s
Moore School, 1943-1946, Proceedings of the American Philosophical
Society, Vol 136, No1 (1992) [participant]
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- H.H. Goldstine, “The Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
(ENIAC),” pp. 10-16.
- Dilys Winegrad, “The Birth of Modern Computing: The Fiftieth Anniversary
of a Discovery At The Moore School of Engineering of the University of
Pennsylvania,” pp..5-9.
- Mitchell Marcus and Atsushi Akera, “Exploring The Architecture of an
Early Machine: The Historical Significance of the ENIAC Machine
Architecture, pp.. 17-24
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- Peter Eckstein, “J. Presper Eckert,” pp..25-44
- John Costello, “As the Twig is Bent: The Early Life of John Mauchly,”
pp.45-50
- David Alan Grier, “The ENIAC, the Verb “to program” and the Emergence of
Digital Computers,” pp.51-55
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- Nancy B. Stern, From ENIAC to UNIVAC, An Appraisal of the Eckert-Mauchly
Computers, Digital Press, 1981
- Kathleen R. Mauchly, “John Mauchly’s Early Years, Annals, Vol.6, No.2
(April 1984)
- Herman Goldstine, From Pascal to von Neumann, Princeton University
Press, 1972
- Emerson Pugh, Memories that Shaped an Industry, MIT Press, 1984
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- Redmond & Smith, Project Whirlwind, The History of A Pioneer
Computer, Digital Press, 1980.
- I. Bernard Cohen, Howard Aiken, Portrait of A Computer Pioneer, MIT
Press, 1999
- William Aspray, John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing,
MIT Press
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- Caminer, et al, LEO, The Incredible Story of the World’s First Business
Computer, McGraw-Hill, 1998
- Lavington, Early British Computers, Digital Press, 1980
- Hendry, Innovating for Failure: Government Policy and the Early British
Computer Industry, MIT Press, 1989.
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- Maurice V. Wilkes, Memoirs of a Computer Pioneer, MIT Press, 1985
- David E. Lundstrom, A Few Good Men from Univac, MIT Press, 1987
- Charles J. Bashe, et.al, IBM’s Early Computers, MIT Press, 1986
- Emerson Pugh, et.al., IBM’s 360 and Early 370 Systems, MIT Press, 1991
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- Photos courtesy of Lucent Technologies and other web sources
- Bunch and Hellemans, The Timetables of Technology, Simon and Schuster,
1993
- Lee, J.A.N., Computer Pioneers, IEEE Press, 1995
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- Pearson (ed), Digital At Work: Snapshots from the first thirty-five
years, Digital Press, 1992
- Shurkin, Engines of the Mind, the evolution of the Computer from
Mainframes to Microprocessors, W.W. Norton, 1984
- Gordon Bell et al, Computer Engineering: A DEC View of Hardware Systems
Design
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- Freiberger and Swaine, Fire in the Valley: The Making of the Personal
Computer, Osborne/McGraw-Hill, 1984
- Bunch and Hellemans, The Timetables of Technology, Simon and Schuster,
1993
- Lee, J.A.N., Computer Pioneers, IEEE Press, 1995
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