Week 5, 1880-1930

Assignments


Machines

Analog devices (planimeters, etc.)
1890 US Census tabulator
Card tabulation

Typewriters

Cash registers

Comptometer
Adding machines


Technology
Electrical relays
Telegraph
Telephone
Electrical power
Vacuum tubes
Radio


People


Herman Hollerith
International Business Machines
Thomas J. Watson
Remington Typewriter Company
Remington Rand
National Cash Register
John H. Patterson
Dorr E. Felt, Robert Tarrant
American Arithmometer Company
William Burroughs
Burroughs Adding Machine Company

Mathematics
Giuseppe Peano's axioms

Logic

Definitions (1889)
arithmetician
computer

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).

Martin Campbell-Kelly and William Aspray. Computer: A History of the Information Machine (Basic Books, 1996).

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

Donald E. Knuth. The Art of Computer Programming, vol. 3, Sorting and Searching (Addison-Wesley, 1973).

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).

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.

Jean van Heijenoort, From Frege To Gödel: A Source Book in Mathematical Logic, 1879-1931 (Harvard University Press, 1967). This is a collection of original works from this period.

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