Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Notes on Measurements of Terrestrial Magnetism. Prepared for the use of the United States Coast Survey, by Charles A. Schott ... June, 1872. Appendix to Report for 1872
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic SurveyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 26
Book Description
Notes on Measurements of Terre Arial Magnetism
Author: Charles A. SchottPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
General Catalogue of Printed Books
Author: British Museum. Department of Printed BooksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English imprints
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
List and Catalogue of the Publications Issued by the U S. Coast and Geodetic Survey 1816-1902
Author: U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey. LibraryPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
List and Catalogue of the Publications Issued by the U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey, 1816-1902
Author: Edward L. BurchardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Geodesy
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
The National Union Catalog, Pre-1956 Imprints
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Union catalogs
Languages : en
Pages : 714
Book Description
Catalogue. [With] Suppl. catalogue
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Author: New Zealand gen. assembly, librPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 498
Book Description
General catalogue of printed books
Author: British museum. Dept. of printed booksPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Bibliography of Map Projections
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Map projection
Languages : en
Pages : 128
Book Description
When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan GrierPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
Book Description
Before Palm Pilots and iPods, PCs and laptops, the term "computer" referred to the people who did scientific calculations by hand. These workers were neither calculating geniuses nor idiot savants but knowledgeable people who, in other circumstances, might have become scientists in their own right. When Computers Were Human represents the first in-depth account of this little-known, 200-year epoch in the history of science and technology. Beginning with the story of his own grandmother, who was trained as a human computer, David Alan Grier provides a poignant introduction to the wider world of women and men who did the hard computational labor of science. His grandmother's casual remark, "I wish I'd used my calculus," hinted at a career deferred and an education forgotten, a secret life unappreciated; like many highly educated women of her generation, she studied to become a human computer because nothing else would offer her a place in the scientific world. The book begins with the return of Halley's comet in 1758 and the effort of three French astronomers to compute its orbit. It ends four cycles later, with a UNIVAC electronic computer projecting the 1986 orbit. In between, Grier tells us about the surveyors of the French Revolution, describes the calculating machines of Charles Babbage, and guides the reader through the Great Depression to marvel at the giant computing room of the Works Progress Administration. When Computers Were Human is the sad but lyrical story of workers who gladly did the hard labor of research calculation in the hope that they might be part of the scientific community. In the end, they were rewarded by a new electronic machine that took the place and the name of those who were, once, the computers.
