Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / / by James Essinger
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| Autore: |
Essinger James <1957->
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| Titolo: |
Jacquard's web : how a hand-loom led to the birth of the information age / / by James Essinger
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| Pubblicazione: | Oxford, : Oxford University Press, 2007, c2004 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (315 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 004.09 |
| 004/.09 | |
| 509 | |
| Soggetto topico: | Computing - History |
| Calculators | |
| Jacquard knitting machines | |
| Information technology - History | |
| Note generali: | First published: 2004. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-293) and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | 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; | |
| Sommario/riassunto: | 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 computer age. James Essinger, a master storyteller, traces the 200-year evolution of Jacquard's idea from the studios of 18th century weavers, through the Industrial Revolution to the development of hi-tech computers and the information age today. - ;Jacquard's Web is the story of some of the most ingenious inventors the world has ever known, a fascinating account of how a hand-loom invented in Napoleonic France led to the development of the modern in |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Jacquard's web |
| ISBN: | 0-19-150114-X |
| 0-19-280577-0 | |
| 1-281-34654-3 | |
| 0-19-151725-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910816565703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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