Creating the Computer: Government, Industry and High Technology

by Kenneth Flamm

Book Overview

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The development of the first electronic digital computers in the 1940s signaled the beginning of a new and distinctive type of industry--an industry marked by competition through innovation, and by the large percentage of revenues spent on research and development.

Written as a companion volume to Targeting the Computer: Government Support and International Competition, this comprehensive volume provides a new understanding to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0815728506
• ISBN13: 9780815728504
• Release Date: February 1988
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"