Tympas Calculation and Computation in the Pre-electronic Era

The Mechanical and Electrical Ages
1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-1-84882-742-4
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten

Reihe: History of Computing

Offers an introduction to the history of computing during the ‘first’ (of steam) and the ‘second’ (of electricity) industrial revolution

Suggests that the computing revolution and the industrial revolution were the same, with the one making the other possible and vice versa

Proposes that analog and digital computing technology is inseparable, with their alleged difference actually resulting from either full or restricted view of the computing process

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tympas, Aristotle

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- The Delights of the Slide Rule.- Lighting Calculations Lightened.- Like the Poor, the Harmonics Will Always Be With Us.- The Inner Satisfaction That Comes With Each Use of the Alignment Chart.- The Appearance of a Neatly Finished Box.- Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Aristotle Tympas is an Associate Professor in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodestrian University of Athens, Greece.