When computers were human /
David Alan Grier.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2005.
- viii, 411 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. [373]-400) and index.
Astronomy and the Division of Labor 1682-1880 -- The First Anticipated Return: Halley's Comet 1758 -- The Children of Adam Smith -- The Celestial Factory: Halley's Comet 1835 -- The American Prime Meridian -- A Carpet for the Computing Room -- Mass Production and New Fields of Science 1880-1930 -- Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Machinery 1893 -- Darwin's Cousins -- Breaking from the Ellipse: Halley's Comet 1910 -- Captains of Academe -- War Production -- Fruits of the Conflict: Machinery 1922 -- Professional Computers and an Independent Discipline 1930-1964 -- The Best of Bad Times -- Scientific Relief -- Tools of the Trade: Machinery 1937 -- Professional Ambition -- New York Mid-town Glide Bomb Club -- The Victor's Share -- Only I Alone am Left to Tell Thee.