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Computers at War (1939-1945): THE COMPUTING CHRONICLES Book Three of Ten

Computers at War (1939-1945): THE COMPUTING CHRONICLES Book Three of Ten

Geissler, Robert

Paperback

Series: The Computing Chronicles, Book 3

General ComputersGeneral World HistoryWorld War II

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ISBN13: 9798170923304
Publisher: Independently Published
Pages: 140
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.30 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Two machines. Two continents. Two teams that never knew the other existed. Both concluded, independently, that the future ran on vacuum tubes.

Computers at War follows the six years that compressed decades of ordinary technological progress into a single, brutal necessity. At Bletchley Park, a young mathematician named Alan Turing steps out of pure theory and into a hands-on engineering role, helping build machines that crack German ciphers and quietly shorten the Battle of the Atlantic. In Philadelphia, John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert bet that eighteen thousand vacuum tubes could actually work-against the confident judgment of nearly every electrical engineer in America. And six women, recruited from a wartime calculating pool and handed a machine with no manual and no precedent, invent computer programming from scratch, then watch their names get left off the press release.

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