- Заглавие:
Jacquard's web
- Автор:
Essinger J.
- Место издания:
Oxford
- Издатель:
Oxford University Press
- Дата издания:
2004
- Объём:
1 vol. (XI-302 p.)
- ISBN:
9780192805775
- Сведения о содержании:
1. The engraving that wasn't --2. A better mousetrap --3. The son of a master-weaver --4. The emperor's new clothes --5. From weaving to computing --6. The difference engine --7. The analytical engine --8. A question of faith and funding --9. The lady who loved the Jacquard loom --10. A crisis with the American census --11. The first Jacquard looms that wove information --12. The birth of IBM --13. The Thomas Watson phenomenon --14. Howard Aiken dreams of a computer --15. IBM and the Harvard Mark I --16. Weaving at the speed of light --17. The future --App. 1. Charles Babbage's vindication --App. 2. Ada Lovelace's letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843 --App. 3. How the Jacquard loom worked.
- Язык текста:
Английский
Библиографический источник
Jacquard's web
how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / J. Essinger