The man who invented the computer : the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer
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Burlington Public Library - Non-fiction
BIO ATANASOF Smiley 2010
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BIO ATANASOF Smiley 2010
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LC Subjects
Atanasoff, John V. -- (John Vincent) -- Biography.
College teachers -- Iowa -- Biography.
Computer scientists -- United States -- Biography.
Electronic digital computers -- History -- 20th century.
Intellectual property -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Patents -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Physicists -- Iowa -- Biography.
Sperry Rand Corporation -- History -- 20th century.
College teachers -- Iowa -- Biography.
Computer scientists -- United States -- Biography.
Electronic digital computers -- History -- 20th century.
Intellectual property -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Inventors -- United States -- Biography.
Patents -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Physicists -- Iowa -- Biography.
Sperry Rand Corporation -- History -- 20th century.
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Book
Physical Desc
246 pages, [8] pages of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-232) and index.
Description
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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Smiley, J. (2010). The man who invented the computer: the biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer . Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smiley, Jane. 2010. The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer. New York: Doubleday.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Smiley, Jane. The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer New York: Doubleday, 2010.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Smiley, Jane. The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer Doubleday, 2010.
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