electronic digital computers

Recounts the behind-the-scenes drama which took place in a computer company while creating a "32-bit supermini" computer for the market.

Presents an overview of the history of the information revolution, detailing the birth of computers, calculators, the Internet, and sites such as Amazon.com, Facebook, Wikipedia, and Google. Includes primary and secondary source quotations, a timeline, a glossary, and sources of more information.

Chronicles the life of physics professor John Vincent Atanasoff, who, in the late 1930s, devised a method of using the binary number system and electrical switches to create the world's first computing device, and describes how his ideas were stolen and used by the people commonly credited with creating the computer.

Tells the story of the three-year race by John Mauchly and Presper Eckert to design and build the first digital, electronic computer, and their ensuing struggle to be recognized as the true fathers of the modern computer.

Presents information on computers, from the abacus to the laptop, including their invention, history, how modern-day computers work, and how they have affected people's lives.