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Autore |
Essinger James <1957-> |
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Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / / by James Essinger |
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Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2004 |
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0-19-150114-X |
0-19-280577-0 |
1-281-34654-3 |
0-19-151725-9 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (315 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Computing - History |
Calculators |
Jacquard knitting machines |
Information technology - History |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of illustrations; 1 The engraving that wasn't; 2 A better mousetrap; 3 The son of a master-weaver; 4 The Emperor's new clothes; 5 From weaving to computing; 6 The Difference Engine; 7 The Analytical Engine; 8 A question of faith and funding; 9 The lady who loved the Jacquard loom; 10 A crisis with the American Census; 11 The first Jacquard looms that wove information; 12 The birth of IBM; 13 The Thomas Watson phenomenon; 14 Howard Aiken dreams of a computer; 15 IBM and the Harvard Mark 1; 16 Weaving at the speed of light; 17 The future; Appendix 1: Charles Babbage's vindication |
Appendix 2: Ada Lovelace's letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843Appendix 3: How the Jacquard loom worked; Acknowledgements; Notes on sources; Bibliography; Index; |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Jacquard's Web tells one of the greatest untold stories of science: how a hand loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the birth of the modern |
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