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Technology - The Computer from Pascal to von Neumann. By Herman H. Goldstine. Princeton: Princeton University Press, and London: Oxford University University Press, 1973. Pp. xii + 378. £6.25.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 January 2009

Brian Randell
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The British Journal for the History of Science , Volume 7 , Issue 3 , November 1974 , pp. 289 - 290
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Copyright © British Society for the History of Science 1974

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