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1 | The engraving that wasn't | 1 |
2 | A better mousetrap | 7 |
3 | The son of a master-weaver | 19 |
4 | The emperor's new clothes | 27 |
5 | From weaving to computing | 45 |
6 | The difference engine | 65 |
7 | The analytical engine | 81 |
8 | A question of faith and funding | 99 |
9 | The lady who loved the Jacquard loom | 119 |
10 | A crisis with the American census | 149 |
11 | The first Jacquard looms that wove information | 159 |
12 | The birth of IBM | 179 |
13 | The Thomas Watson phenomenon | 195 |
14 | Howard Aiken dreams of a computer | 195 |
15 | IBM and the Harvard Mark I | 219 |
16 | Weaving at the speed of light | 239 |
17 | The future | 253 |
App. 1 | Charles Babbage's vindication | 265 |
App. 2 | Ada Lovelace's letter to Charles Babbage, 14 August 1843 | 270 |
App. 3 | How the Jacquard loom worked | 277 |
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