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The Cartoon Guide to the Computer #1

The history of mathematics and calculating machines from the beginning of mankind through the present, including several basic computer programming concepts.

Cover Date

January 1, 1991

Pages

260

Cover Price

$10.00 / CA$13.50

Barcode

978006273097890000

ISBN

0062730975

Credits

Characters

Claude Shannon (Bell Labs Engineer, 1916-2001); Al-Khwarismi (circa 780 AD - circa 850 AD); Niccolo Tartaglia (1499-1559); Isaac Newton (1643-1727); John Napier (1550-1617); Wilhelm Schickard (1592-1635); Blaise Pascal (1623-1662); Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716); Joseph Marie Jacquard (1752-1834); Charles Babbage (1792-1871); Ada Lovelace (1815-1852); Herman Hollerith (1860-1929); Konrad Zuse (1910-1995); Howard Aiken (1900-1973); J. Presper Eckert (1919-1995); John Mauchly (1907-1980); John Von Neumann (1903-1957)

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