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Before the computer : IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the industry they created, 1865-1956

Title
Before the computer : IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the industry they created, 1865-1956 / James W. Cortada.
Author
Cortada, James W.
Publication
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2000.

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Description
xxii, 350 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Summary
"Before the Computer fully explores the data processing industry in the United States from its nineteenth-century inception down to the period when the computer became its primary tool. James Cortada describes how many of the practices of the "office appliance industry" evolved into those of the computer world. This book challenges our view of the digital computer as a revolutionary technology - by establishing its evolutionary links to the past."--BOOK JACKET.
Series Statement
Princeton studies in business and technology
Uniform Title
Princeton studies in business and technology.
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [289]-336) and index.
Contents
  • Pt. 1. Origins of a New Industry, 1865-1920. 1. From Opportunities to Typewriters. 2. Adding the Calculating Machines. 3. Hollerith and the Development of Punched Card Tabulation. 4. Cash Registers and the National Cash Register Company. 5. Rudiments of an Industry Identified -- Pt. 2. An Age of Office Machines, 1920-1941. 6. Economic Conditions and the Role of Standardization. 7. Products, Practices, and Prices. 8. Commercial and Scientific Applications of Punched Card Machines. 9. International Trade in Punched Card Machines. 10. The Great Depression in the United States. 11. IBM and Powers/Remington Rand. 12. Other Accounting Machines and Their Uses. 13. Vendors, Practices, and Results -- Pt. 3. World War II and the Postwar Office Appliance Industry, 1941-1956. 14. Economics, Government Controls, and Applications. 15. The Role of Major Vendors, 1939-1946. 16. Industry Structure, Vendors, and Practice, 1945-1956. 17. Business Volumes.
  • 18. Conclusion: The Roles of Marketing, Distribution, and Technology.
ISBN
0691050457 (pbk. : alk. paper)
OCLC
  • ocm47295020
  • SCSB-3870263
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries