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The Computers that Made the World
By Tim Danton
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By Tim Danton
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Discover the birth of the technological world we now live in through the origins of 12 influential computers built between 1939 and 1950.
In 1940, a computer was someone who ploughed through grueling calculations each day. A decade later, a computer was a buzzing machine that filled a room. This book tells the story of how our world was reshaped by a dozen such computers — and the geniuses that brought them into being, from Alan Turing to John von Neumann.
This world tour through the modern...