by Charles and Ray Eames edited by Glen Fleck Harvard University
Press, Hardcover 1973 "A Computer Perspective" is an illustrated
essay on the origins and first lines of development of the
computer. The complex network of creative forces and social
pressures that have produced the computer is personified here in
the creators of instruments of computation, and their machines
or tables; the inventors of mathematical or logical concepts and
their applications; and the fabricators of practical devices to
serve the immediate needs of government, commerce, engineering,
and science. The book is based on an exhibition conceived and
assembled for International Business Machines Corporation. Like
the exhibition, it is not a history in the narrow sense of a
chronology of concepts and devices. Yet these pages actually
display more true history (in relation to the computer) than
many more conventional presentations of the development of
science and technology.