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Tympas, Aristotelis.

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The computor and the analyst: Computing and power, 1880s--1960s.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The computor and the analyst: Computing and power, 1880s--1960s./
Author:	Tympas, Aristotelis.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2001,
Description:	788 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-11, Section: A, page: 3892.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International62-11A.
Subject:	Modern history. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3032493
ISBN:	9780493450513

The computor and the analyst: Computing and power, 1880s--1960s.
Tympas, Aristotelis.

The computor and the analyst: Computing and power, 1880s--1960s. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2001 - 788 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 62-11, Section: A, page: 3892.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Georgia Institute of Technology, 2001.

In this dissertation, I present my study of the history of the relationship between electrification and computation from the 1880s to the 1960s. I am specifically interested in the computation of the transmission part of an electric power network, which was the defining component of what came to be known as 'power analysis'. Power analysis was determined by the tradeoff between the pursuit of increased social profit by the lengthening and interconnection of transmission lines and the corresponding decrease of technical instability. I divide the period under consideration into three sub-periods: 1880s--World War I, World War I to World War II, World War II--1960s. The history of computing the stability of electric power transmission during each of these sub-periods was marked by the development and use of the artificial line, the network analyzer, and the mainframe electronic computer respectively. But many other computing artifacts were used in power analysis, some quite extensively (slide rules), others relatively little (calculating-tabulating machines). I here present my findings in regards to calculating-tabulating machines and tables, slide rules, various analyzers, and graphs.

ISBN: 9780493450513Subjects--Topical Terms:

2122829
Modern history.

The computor and the analyst: Computing and power, 1880s--1960s.
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