Empire of the sum : the rise and reign of the pocket calculator
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
510.284/HOUSTON,K
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Company, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION
374 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 22 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780393882148, 0393882144 :, 0393882144, 9780393882148
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
The hand -- The abacus -- The slide rule -- The clockwork age -- The arithmometer and the curta -- The Friden STW-10 -- The Casio 14-A -- The Sumlock Anita -- The Olivetti Programma 101 -- The Texas Instruments Cal Tech -- The Busicom 141-PF -- The Hewlett-Packard HP-35 -- The Pulsar Time computer calculator -- The Texas Instruments TI-81 -- Software Arts Visicalc
"The hidden history of the pocket calculator -- a device that ushered in modern mathematics, helped build the atomic bomb, and went with us to the moon -- and the mathematicians, designers, and inventors who brought it to life." -- back cover