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Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
c2010.
Language
English
Description
One night in the late 1930s, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he built the machine.
Author
Language
English
Description
"Mildred Armstrong Kalish grew up on her grandparents' Iowa farm during the Great Depression. Kalish counts herself among the lucky of that era. She had caring gradparents who possessed the pioneer virtues of their forebears, teachers who inspired and befriended her, and a barnyard full of animals ready to be tamed and loved. She, her siblings and their cousins worked hard and played hard"--Back cover.
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