04063cam a2200865 4500 531285900 TxAuBib 20210910120000.0 ||||||s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385533720 0385533721 B003F3FJKA Amazon 76874911-ed82-43e8-bd32-ba136e31d66c OverDrive (Reserve ID) 168709 168709 168709 470965 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Smiley, Jane. The Man Who Invented the Computer [Libby]. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2010. Education. Biography. Physics. Historical. Computers. Business. autobiographies. internet. philosophy. computer. Science. World History. Autobiography. Engineering. Creativity. psychology. Inspirational. mathematics. Innovation. self help. biographies. Tech. History. Pop Culture. Leadership. Technology. Economics. school. history books. science books. historical books. gifts for history buffs. biographies of famous people. history gifts. history buff gifts. history lovers gifts. history teacher gifts. computer books. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 5019kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Biography & Autobiography. Computer Technology. History. Nonfiction. HTML:<b>From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a&#160; David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.<br /></b><br /> One night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois–Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, 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 and the lives of other similarly burdened scientists easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked. The whole world changed.<br /> <br /> Why don’t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we know those of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he never patented the device, and because the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on... Media Type: eBook. Importer Version: 2014-01-08.01 Import Date: 2021-11-04 17:40:22. https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/768/749/11/ManWhoInventedtheComputer9780385533720.epub Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=76874911-ED82-43E8-BD32-BA136E31D66C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Adobe EPUB eBook) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/768/749/11/ManWhoInventedtheComputer9780385533720.epub Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=76874911-ED82-43E8-BD32-BA136E31D66C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (Kindle Book) https://excerpts.cdn.overdrive.com/FormatType-410/0111-1/768/749/11/ManWhoInventedtheComputer9780385533720.epub Excerpt (OverDrive Read) https://samples.overdrive.com/?crid=76874911-ED82-43E8-BD32-BA136E31D66C&.epub-sample.overdrive.com Excerpt (OverDrive Read)