Technology for Modelling Electrical Analogies, Engineering Practice, and the Development of Analogue Computing /

• Main Author: Care, Charles. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London : Imprint: Springer, 2010.
• Series: History of Computing,
• Subjects: Computer science.; Computer simulation.; Computer Science.; History of Computing.; Simulation and Modeling.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-948-0

Historians have different views on the core identity of analogue computing. Some portray the technology solely as a precursor to digital computing, whereas others stress that analogue applications existed well after 1940. Even within contemporary sources, there is a spectrum of understanding around...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction: Analogue Computers in the History of Computing
• A Multi-Stranded Chronology of Analogue Computing
• Modelling Technology and the History of Analogue Computing
• Origins of Analogue: Conceptual Association and Entanglement
• Analogue Computers in British Higher Education
• Analogue Computers and Oil Reservoir Modelling
• AnalogueDigital Decisions in British Aeronautical Research
• The Analogue Dishpan: Physical Modelling versus Numerical Calculation in Meteorology
• Conclusion.