Download e-book for kindle: The Analogue Alternative: The Electronic Analogue Computer by James S. Small

By James S. Small

we're in the middle of a electronic revolution - until eventually lately, the vast majority of home equipment utilized in way of life were built with analogue expertise. Now, both at domestic or out and approximately, we're surrounded by way of electronic expertise reminiscent of electronic 'film', audio platforms, desktops and telephones.
From the overdue Nineteen Forties until eventually the Seventies, analogue know-how used to be a real substitute to electronic, and the 2 competing applied sciences ran parallel with one another. in this interval, a group of engineers, scientists, teachers and businessmen endured to boost and advertise the analogue desktop. on the top of the chilly conflict, this group and its expertise met with substantial good fortune in assembly the pressing call for for prime pace computing to be used within the layout and simulation of rockets, airplane and manned house vehicles.
The Analogue Alternative tracks the advance, commercialisation and supreme decline of the digital analogue laptop within the united states and Britain. It examines the jobs performed by way of technical, financial and cultural elements within the pageant among the choice applied sciences, yet extra importantly, James Small demonstrates that non-technical elements, equivalent to the function of 'military firm' and the operating practices of analogue engineers, were the main the most important in analogue's demise.^l This e-book may be of curiosity to scholars of the historical past and sociology of technology and expertise, relatively computing. it's going to even be suitable to these attracted to technical switch and innovation, and the examine of clinical cultures.

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