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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Microfilms of the Henry Knox Papers. Index
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Languages : en
Pages : 514
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History of Windham County, Connecticut: 1600-1760
Author: Ellen Douglas LarnedPublisher:
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Category : Windham County (Conn.)
Languages : en
Pages : 618
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Index to the Henry Knox Papers Owned by the New England Historic Genealogical Society and Deposited in the Massachusetts Historical Society
Author: Henry KnoxPublisher:
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Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 520
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Sketches of the Alumni of Dartmouth College
Author: George Thomas ChapmanPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 534
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Pierce Genealogy, No. IV.
Author: Frederick Clifton PiercePublisher: Albany, N.Y. : Pub. for the author by J. Munsell's sons
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Languages : en
Pages : 460
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Genealogical and Family History of the State of Maine
Author: George Thomas LittlePublisher:
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Category : Maine
Languages : en
Pages : 808
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When Computers Were Human
Author: David Alan GrierPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400849365
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 423
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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.
History of the Reed Family in Europe and America
Author: Jacob Whittemore ReedPublisher:
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Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 1330
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History of Delaware County, Indiana
Author: Frank D. HaimbaughPublisher:
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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 624
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History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro
Author: Jasper Jacob StahlPublisher:
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Category : Waldoboro (Me.)
Languages : en
Pages : 650
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