Week 4, 1800-1880

Assignments


Machines

Analog devices (planimeters, etc.)

Arithmometer

Jacquard Loom

Difference engine
Analytical Engine
[CBC-Ch2]

Logic


People



Charles Xavier Thomas de Colmar

Joseph Marie Jacquard

Charles Babbage
Ada Lovelace
Luigi F. Menabrea

Augustus De Morgan
George Boole

Bibliography

William Aspray, ed., Computing Before Computers (Ames, IA: Iowa State University Press, 1990 ). Also available online at http://www.computerhistory.org/collections/DocumentArchive/Documents/Books/Computing Before Computers/CBC.html (Computer History Museum, accessed 2004 Aug 11).

Herman Goldstine. The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann (Princeton University Press, 1972).

John J. O'Conner and Edmund F. Robertson, "The MacTutor History of Mathematics Archive," http://turnbull.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/history/ (School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St. Andrews, Scotland, accessed 2004 Aug 25).

Philip Morrison and Emily Morrison, eds. Charles Babbage on the Principles and Development of the Calculator (Dover Publications, Inc., 1961).

Brian Randell, ed., The Origins of Digital Computers: Selected Papers (Berlin: Springer-Verlag, 1982). This has copies of many original works ranging from Charles Babbage writing about calculating engines in 1837 to Maurice Wilkes writing about the EDSAC in 1949.

Howard Rheingold. Tools for Thought: The History and Future of Mind-Expanding Technology (The MIT Press, 2000).

Benjamin Woolley, The Bride of Science: Romance, Reason, and Byron's Daughter (McGraw, 2002).

"The Victorian Web," http://www.victorianweb.org/ (Victorian Web, accessed 2004 Sep 15).

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