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Accounts of the early events of the computing industryâthe Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computerâare well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer. Yet there is an extraordinary untold middle historyâwith deep roots in Minnesota. From the end of World War II through the 1970s, Minnesota was home to the first computing-centered industrial district in the world.Drawing on rare archival documents, photographs, and a wealth of oral histories, Digital State unveils the remarkable story of computer development in the heartland after World War II. These decades found corporationsâconcentrated in large part in Minnesotaâdesigning state-of-the-art mainframe technologies, revolutionizing new methods of magnetic data storage, and, for the first time, truly integrating software and hardware into valuable products for the American government and public. Minnesota-based companies such as Engineering Research Associates, Univac, Control Data, Cray Research, Honeywell, and IBM Rochester were major international players and together formed an unrivaled epicenter advancing digital technologies. These companies not only brought vibrant economic growth to Minnesota, they nurtured the stateâs present-day medical device and software industries and possibly even tomorrowâs nanotechnology.Thomas J. Misaâs groundbreaking history shows how Minnesota recognized and embraced the coming information age through its leading-edge companies, its workforce, and its prominent institutions. Digital State reveals the inner workings of the birth of the digital age in Minnesota and what we can learn from this era of sustained innovation.
Hardcover:
9780816683314 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 7, 2013, cover price $90.00
Paperback:
9780816683321 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, October 2, 2013, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Accounts of the early events of the computing industryâthe Turing machine, the massive Colossus, the ENIAC computerâare well-told tales, and equally well known is the later emergence of Silicon Valley and the rise of the personal computer.
Miscellaneous:
9781118035139 | IEEE Computer Society, September 14, 2011, cover price $29.95
9780470619919 | IEEE Computer Society, June 3, 2010, cover price $29.95
Hardcover:
9781421401546 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 16, 2011), cover price $60.00
9780801878084 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, April 1, 2004, cover price $56.95 | About this edition: Describes the economic, sociological, and cultural factors that shaped the Industrial Revolution and discusses the link between modern technology and aesthetics.
9780201741964, titled "Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective" | 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, July 1, 2001), cover price $97.00 | also contains Operating Systems: A Modern Perspective
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9781421401539 | 2 edition (Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, May 16, 2011), cover price $25.00
9780801878091, titled "Leonardo to the Internet: Technology and Culture from the Renaissance to the Present" | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, March 8, 2004, cover price $24.00 | About this edition: Describes the economic, sociological, and cultural factors that shaped the Industrial Revolution and discusses the link between modern technology and aesthetics.
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9780470597194, titled "Gender Codes: Why Women Are Leaving Computing" | IEEE Computer Society, July 13, 2010, cover price $37.95
Product Description: Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimension of modern European cities, vividly describing the most dramatic changes in the urban environment over the last century and a half. Written by leading scholars from the history of technology, urban history, sociology and science, technology, and society, the book views the European city as a complex construct entangled with technology...read more
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9780262083690 | Mit Pr, February 29, 2008, cover price $10.75 | About this edition: Urban Machinery investigates the technological dimension of modern European cities, vividly describing the most dramatic changes in the urban environment over the last century and a half.
Hardcover:
9780262134217 | Mit Pr, January 3, 2003, cover price $45.00
Paperback:
9780262633109 | Mit Pr, September 1, 2004, cover price $34.00
Awarded the Dexter Prize for Best Book in the History of Technology"This truly outstanding book will become required reading in the history of technology. The story of steel is important in its own right, and Thomas Misa writes with remarkable clarity and succinctness... The emphasis upon user-producer interactions allows Misa to focus on the social significance of technologies and to bring out nuances and contingencies in the development of critical technologies and industries."--Edwin T. Layton, Technology and CultureFrom the age of railroads through the building of the first battleships, from the first skyscrapers to the dawning of the age of the automobile, steelmakers proved central to American industry, building, and transportation. In A Nation of Steel Thomas Misa explores the complex interactions between steelmaking and the rise of the industries that have characterized modern America. A Nation of Steel offers a detailed and fascinating look at an industry that has had a profound impact on American life."Each of Misa's six case studies is fruitful, and together they capture the enormously diverse and complex influences on technological change. Taken as a whole, this study constitutes a massive and successful assault on the neo-classical paradigm... This book will profoundly shape the way scholars understand how technologies 'are not only socially constructed but society-shaping.'"--David Bensman, American Historical Review"A brief review can not do justice to the subtlety with which Misa links steelmaking to a larger socioeconomic environment... Based on new information from archival and other primary sources, this well-written, richly textured work greatly expands our knowledge of American industrialization." -- W. David Lewis, Journal of American History"In what will surely become a standard history of steelmaking, Misa integrates that industry's development with the industrial growth of America in the half-century following the Civil War. Involved in the interplay between steel production and the production of America were such developments as the railroads' demand for steel rails following the Civil War, the role of urbanization and especially tall-building construction, the armor plate requirements of the Navy, and the emergence and growth of the automotive industry." -- Science, Technology & Society"A splendid overview of an industry whose fortunes were inextricably intertwined with the railroads... The protions that treat the dynamic interrelations of the steel industry and the railroads clearly stand as the most sophisticated treatment of this complex topic that has yet appeared in print... An immensely rewarding book." -- Robert C. Post, Railroad History (view table of contents)
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9780801849671 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, June 1, 1995, cover price $54.00 | About this edition: Awarded the Dexter Prize for Best Book in the History of Technology"This truly outstanding book will become required reading in the history of technology.
Paperback:
9780801860522 | Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, September 8, 1998, cover price $32.00
Hardcover:
9781855673076 | Pinter Pub Ltd, December 1, 1996, cover price $64.95
Hardcover:
9781855673397 | 2nd edition (Pinter Pub Ltd, September 1, 1996), cover price $64.95
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9781855673403 | Thomson Learning, April 1, 1995, cover price $35.99
Paperback:
9781855673182 | Pinter Pub Ltd, April 1, 1995, cover price $29.95
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