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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