The Resource The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer, Jane Smiley
The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer, Jane Smiley
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- Summary
- One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 246 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385527132
- Label
- The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer
- Title
- The man who invented the computer
- Title remainder
- the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer
- Statement of responsibility
- Jane Smiley
- Subject
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- College teachers -- Iowa -- Biography
- Computer scientists -- United States -- Biography
- Computers
- Electronic digital computers -- History -- 20th century
- Intellectual property -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Atanasoff, John V., (John Vincent)
- Patents -- United States -- 20th century -- History
- Physicists -- Iowa -- Biography
- Sperry Rand (Corporation) -- History -- 20th century
- Inventors -- United States -- Biography
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Smiley, Jane
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- QA76.2.A75
- LC item number
- S64 2010
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Atanasoff, John V.
- Sperry Rand (Corporation)
- Computer scientists
- Inventors
- Physicists
- College teachers
- Electronic digital computers
- Patents
- Intellectual property
- Computers
- Label
- The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer, Jane Smiley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index
- Control code
- 502029794
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 246 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385527132
- Lccn
- 2010018887
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)502029794
- Label
- The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer, Jane Smiley
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index
- Control code
- 502029794
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- 1st ed
- Extent
- 246 p., [8] p. of plates
- Isbn
- 9780385527132
- Lccn
- 2010018887
- Other physical details
- ill.
- System control number
- (OCoLC)502029794
Subject
- College teachers -- Iowa -- Biography
- Computer scientists -- United States -- Biography
- Computers
- Electronic digital computers -- History -- 20th century
- Intellectual property -- United States -- History -- 20th century
- Atanasoff, John V., (John Vincent)
- Patents -- United States -- 20th century -- History
- Physicists -- Iowa -- Biography
- Sperry Rand (Corporation) -- History -- 20th century
- Inventors -- United States -- Biography
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