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Author Groves, Marsha.

Title Inventing the computer / Marsha Groves.

Publication Info. New York : Crabtree Pub. Co., [2007]
©2007

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Location Call No. Status
 Burlington Public Library - Children's Department  J004 GRO    Check Shelf
Description 32 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
Series Breakthrough inventions
Breakthrough inventions.
Note Includes index.
Summary This book presents the history of the computer, from the mechanical calculator designed by Gottfried Leibniz in 1685 to construction on ENIAC, the first programmable electronic computer, in 1944 to today's many uses of microprocessors.
Contents A New Age 4 -- Calculating Machines 6 -- Early Automation 8 -- The Computer Age 10 -- Computing Grows 12 -- Programs and Data 14 -- Transistors and Chips 16 -- Computers for All 18 -- Inside a Computer 20 -- Computer Software 22 -- A Connected World 24 -- At Work and Play 26 -- Invisible Computers 28 -- In the Future 30.
Study Program Accelerated Reader AR MG 8.7 1.0 114943.
Subject Computers -- Juvenile literature.
Inventions -- Juvenile literature.
Computers.
Inventions.
Genre/Form Juvenile works. (OCoLC)fst01411637
Subject Computers. (OCoLC)fst00872776
Inventions. (OCoLC)fst00977993
ISBN 9780778728160 (rlb)
0778728161 (rlb)
9780778728382 (pb)
0778728382 (pb)
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