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000344055 1001_ $$aSmiley, Jane.
000344055 24514 $$aThe man who invented the computer :$$bthe biography of John Atanasoff, digital pioneer /$$cJane Smiley.
000344055 250__ $$a1st ed.
000344055 260__ $$aNew York :$$bDoubleday,$$cc2010.
000344055 300__ $$a246 p., [8] p. of plates :$$bill. ;$$c25 cm.
000344055 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000344055 520__ $$aOne night in the late 1930s, in a bar on the Illinois-Iowa border, John Vincent Atanasoff, a professor of physics at Iowa State University, after a frustrating day performing tedious mathematical calculations in his lab, hit on the idea that the binary number system and electronic switches, combined with an array of capacitors on a moving drum to serve as memory, could yield a computing machine that would make his life easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked, but he never patented the device, and the developers of the far-better-known ENIAC almost certainly stole critical ideas from him. But in 1973 a court declared that the patent on that Sperry Rand device was invalid, opening the gates to the computer revolution. Biographer Jane Smiley makes the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.--From publisher description.
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000344055 61020 $$aSperry Rand (Corporation)$$xHistory$$y20th century.
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000344055 650_0 $$aInventors$$zUnited States$$vBiography.
000344055 650_0 $$aPhysicists$$zIowa$$vBiography.
000344055 650_0 $$aCollege teachers$$zIowa$$vBiography.
000344055 650_0 $$aElectronic digital computers$$xHistory$$y20th century.
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