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"Looking at some of the major inventions and discoveries shaping our world today, Breakthroughs in Science profiles the research leading up to the discovery (not just profiles of the one or two key "players"). Each book describes the "famous" moment and then examines the continued evolution illustrating its impact today and for the future"--Provided by publisher.
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Table of Contents
It all adds up!
Calculators
A revolution
Babbage and his engines
Information processing
Calculators to computers
Relays and switches
Colossus goes to war
ENIAC
Crucial developments
Baby whirlwind
The transistor
UNIVAC
The microchip arrives
GUI and the mouse
Internet dawn
The microprocessor
Computing gets personal
The world connected.
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Includes bibliographical references (page 45) and index.
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