Information Technology Before the Electronic Computer
Last update: 21 Apr 2025 21:17First version: 18 September 2015
Yet another inadequate placeholder, though see The Information Society and the Information Economy for some context.
See also: Computers
- Recommended:
- JoAnne Yates, Control through Communications: The Rise of System in American Management
- Jon Agar, The Government Machine: A Revolutionary History of the Computer
- James W. Cortada, Before the Computer: IBM, NCR, Burroughs, and Remington Rand and the Industry They Created, 1865--1956
- Claude S. Fischer, America Calling: A Social History of the Telephone to 1940
- David Alan Grier, When Computers Were Human
- Peter Hall and Paschal Preston, The Carrier Wave: New Information Technology and the Geography of Innovation, 1846--2003
- Daniel R. Headrick, When Information Came of Age: Technologies of Knowledge in the Age of Reason and Revolution, 1700--1850
- Michael E. Hobart and Zachary S. Schiffman, Information Ages: Literacy, Numeracy, and the Computer Revolution
- Peter J. Hugill, Global Communications since 1844: Geopolitics and Technology
- James Joseph O'Donnell, Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
- JoAnne Yates, Structuring the Information Age: Life Insurance and Technology in the Twentieth Century
- James Beniger, The Control Revolution: Technological and Economic Origins of the Information Society
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