A COMPUTER CALLED LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer - Couverture souple

Ferry, Georgina

 
9781841151861: A COMPUTER CALLED LEO: Lyons Tea Shops and the world’s first office computer
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ISBN 10 : 1841151866 ISBN 13 : 9781841151861
Editeur : Harper Perennial, 2010

Synopsis

The eccentric story of one of the most bizarre marriages in the history of British business: the invention of the world's first office computer and the Lyons Teashop.

The Lyons teashops were one of the great British institutions, providing a cup of tea and a penny bun through the depression and the war, though to the 1970s. Yet Lyons also has a more surprising claim to history.

In the 1930s John Simmons, a young maths graduate in charge of the clerks' offices, had a dream: to build a machine that would automate the millions of tedious transactions and process them in as little time as possible. Simmons' quest for the first office computer – the Lyons Electronic Office – would take 20 years and involve some of the most brilliant young minds in Britain.

Interwoven with the story of creating LEO is the story of early computing, from the Difference Engine of Charles Babbage to the codecracking computers at Bletchley Park and the instantly obsolescent ENIAC in the US. It is also the story of post war British computer business: why did it lose the initiative? Why did the US succeed while British design was often superior?

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À propos de l'auteur

Georgina is the author of Dorothy Hodgkin: A Life, a biography of the only British woman scientist to win a Nobel Prize and THE COMMON THREAD (with John Sulston) which is short listed for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize. Born in Hong Kong, Georgina has lived in Oxford for the past 19 years. She has worked as a science writer and broadcaster.

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Éditeur
Harper Perennial
Date d'édition
2010
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1841151866
ISBN 13 
9781841151861
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
248
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Editeur : Fourth Estate Ltd, 2003
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