Early Computing in Britain : Ferranti Ltd. and Government Funding, 1948 - 1958 /

This unique book presents the story of the pioneering manufacturing company Ferranti Limited - producer of the first commercially-available computers - and of the nine end-user organisations who purchased these machines with government help in the period 1951 to 1957. The text presents personal remi...

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Main Author:	Lavington, Simon (Author)
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2019.
Edition:	1st ed. 2019.
Series:	History of computing.
Subjects:	Computers. Technology-History. History. History of Computing. History of Technology. History of Science.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book