Title:
Empire of the sum : the rise and reign of the pocket calculator / Keith Houston.
ISBN:
9780393882148
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
Contents:
The hand -- The abacus -- The slide rule -- The clockwork age -- The arithmometer and the curta -- The Friden STW-10 -- The Casio 14-A -- The Sumlock Anita -- The Olivetti Programma 101 -- The Texas Instruments Cal Tech -- The Busicom 141-PF -- The Hewlett-Packard HP-35 -- The Pulsar Time computer calculator -- The Texas Instruments TI-81 -- Software Arts Visicalc.
Summary:
"The hidden history of the pocket calculator -- a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon -- and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life." -- back cover
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OCLC Number:
on1392658789
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