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The Man Who Invented the Computer audiobook
- By: Jane Smiley
- Narrator: Kathe Mazur
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology
- Length: 8 hours 14 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2010
- Language: English
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The Man Who Invented the Computer Audiobook Summary
From one of our most acclaimed novelists, a David-and-Goliath biography for the digital age.
One 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 and the lives of other similarly burdened scientists easier. Then he went back and built the machine. It worked. The whole world changed.
Why don’t we know the name of John Atanasoff as well as we know those of Alan Turing and John von Neumann? Because he never patented the device, and because 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 intellectual property gates to the computer revolution.
Jane Smiley tells the quintessentially American story of the child of immigrants John Atanasoff with technical clarity and narrative drive, making the race to develop digital computing as gripping as a real-life techno-thriller.
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The Man Who Invented the Computer Full Details
| Narrator | Kathe Mazur |
| Length | 8 hours 14 minutes |
| Author | Jane Smiley |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 28, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780307751140 |
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The publisher of the The Man Who Invented the Computer is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: biography, technology, biographies, computers, computer, autobiographies, world history, mathematics, science books, biographies of famous people, history, history books, science, tech, autobiography, history gifts, computer books, history teacher gifts, historical books, history buff gifts, gifts for history buffs, history lovers gifts, physics, philosophy, business, historical, psychology, leadership, 20th century, inspirational, music, education, culture, wwii, classic, society, sci-fi, school, internet, sociology, art, Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology, Computers, History, History, Modern, 20th Century The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Science & Technology
Additional info
The publisher of the The Man Who Invented the Computer is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780307751140.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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