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Introduction
My Appointment to Japan
The First Telegraph in Japan
Laying Out a New Settlement
Water and Light
Building Iron Bridges
Osaka: An Interned City
Taming the Shinano River
The Gold Mines of Sado
The Pioneer Railway in the Far East
Maps, Surveys, and Engineering Education
The New Coinage
The Great Fire in Tokio
The Craze for Steamers
Location of the Lighthouses
In the Historic Port of Nagasaki
Buying a Lighthouse Tender
My Visit to Satsuma
The American Warship Oneida
The Purchase of the Thabor
The Jealous Japanese
The Dockyard at Yokosuka
The Expedition to Formosa
Vicissitudes
Necessity, the Mother of Invention
Building Lightships
Audience of the Emperor
The Great Embassy to the Treaty Powers
Home Again--With the Japanese in England
Japanese Petroleum
Women's Education in Japan
The Japanese in Bad Temper
The Yokohama Harbor Scheme
Maintaining Discipline
Keeping Up the Standards
The Riu Kiu [Ryukyu] Islands
Personal Judgements
Index
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Jayson White
reviewed Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876, Vol. 1 on June 11, 2020
Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876, Vol. 1
Konrad Zuse was a german civil engineer who, during WWII, essentially invented the computer & some programming theory in parallel with similar inventions from the Allied nations.
He gives some focus to the effects of the war on his work; especially the prototypes destroyed due to it. He also spent a good amount of time talking about a theory of programming languages. He designed a language called the "plan calculus" that is more thoroughly grounded in boolean algebra (instead of numeric operations).
Overall, the book is a fascinating look at Zuse. It's both amazing (in the 1930's, he theorized that one day his computing machines would be able to play chess, and win!) and sad (even up to his death in 1995, some of his ideas received short thrift).
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Add Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876, Vol. 1, Brunton's memoir opens a window on life and times in Meiji Japan from 1868 to 1876, a crucial period in that country's transformation from a medieval backwater into an efficient modern society. Schoolmaster to an Empire, the premier volume in Greenwood's , Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876, Vol. 1 to the inventory that you are selling on WonderClubX
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Add Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876, Vol. 1, Brunton's memoir opens a window on life and times in Meiji Japan from 1868 to 1876, a crucial period in that country's transformation from a medieval backwater into an efficient modern society. Schoolmaster to an Empire, the premier volume in Greenwood's , Schoolmaster to an Empire: Richard Henry Brunton in Meiji Japan, 1868-1876, Vol. 1 to your collection on WonderClub |