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Pebbles to Computers: The Thread

Pebbles to Computers: The Thread

Pebbles to Computers: The Thread
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Pebbles to Computers: The Thread Hardback - 1987

by Blohm, Hans

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  • Title Pebbles to Computers: The Thread
  • Author Blohm, Hans
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition 1st Edition, 1st Printing
  • Condition Used: Good
  • Pages 112
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, Toronto
  • Publication date 1987-03-19
  • Bookseller's Inventory # SONG0195405366
  • ISBN 9780195405361 / 0195405366
  • Weight 1.67 lbs (0.76 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.88 x 10.63 x 0.66 in (22.56 x 27.00 x 1.68 cm)
  • Size 9.00x0.75x10.50
  • Category Science
  • Library of Congress subjects Computers - History, Numeration - History
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 87126362
  • Dewey Decimal Code 500
  • Quantity available 1

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From the publisher

Using an exciting synthesis of text and pictures, photographer Hans Blohm and scientist Stafford Beers present a graphic exploration of the connections between prehistoric and antique technologies and those of our modern world. In this inventive book, a Byzantine sun-dial and a modern satellite signal receiver are among the many images that have been chosen to show the 'thread' connecting our efforts down the ages to use and record information.
The story of computation emerges as the central theme. By tracing its development from the earliest use of pebbles through the abacus, the slide rule and finally to the most sophisticated modern circuits, the authors present a convincing argument that 'high tech' does indeed go back to the dawn of time. Blohm and Beers have travelled from Stonehenge to the Pyramid of the Sun in Mexico, marvelled over Leonardo's inventions in Milan and examined Leibniz's calculator in Hanover in their search for evidence of the patterns of human invention. They isolate some critical issues in the development of technology, such as the reproduction of written language, and cover many of the outstanding names: Archimedes, Caxton, Pascal, Babbage and Turing among others. With an introduction by renowned zoologist David Suzuki, Pebbles to Computers is a remarkable testament to the depth and richness of humanity's technological achievements.

About the author

About the authors:
Hans Blohm works around the world as a photographer in the forefront of scientific camera-work. Stafford Beer, a Canadian scientist, philosopher, and poet, was a pioneer of cybernetics and is an international authority on the science of organizations. David T. Suzuki, geneticist and zoologist, is famous for his PBS series "The Nature of Things."

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