Analytical Engine and, 58–61, 63–66
background of, 40, 44–47, 49
Difference Engine and, 41–44, 47–57
old age of, 66
support of inventors by, 56–7
Babbage, Georgina (Whitmore), 46–8
Babylonian number systems, 4
Backus, John, 213–5
Baldwin, Frank Stephen, 78–9
Ballistic Research Laboratory (BRL), 109–112
EDVAC and, 133
ENIAC and, 123–4
firing tables and, 120
Bardeen, John, 227–8, 239
Barnes, Major General G. L., 121
Barron, C. B., 168–9
Bartik, Jean, 157
BASIC, 217, 253, 275
Batch processing, 253–4
Beckman, Arnold, 240
Bell Punch Company, 261
Bell Telephone Laboratories, 99–102, 153, 220
calculators:
Model I, 102
Model II 102
Model V, 102, 106
symposium on transistors and, 229
transistors and, 225–7
Bemis, Richard, 13
Bendix, 220
Bernstein, Jeremy, 106
Berry, Clifford, 114, 116, 119. See also Atanasoff-Berry Computer
Best, Sheldon, 215
Bibby, Dause L., 219
Billings, John Shaw, 70–1
BINAC (Binary Automatic Computer), 159–60
Binary adder, 101
Binary calculators. See Atanasoff-Berry Computer; Zuse, Konrad
Binary enumeration, 34–35, 90
Binary math, 35, 100–1
Birkenstock, James, 191–2
Bit (binary digit), 35
Blank, Julius, 240
Bollee, Leon, 80
Bombs
development of atomic, 139
ENIAC and hydrogen, 130–1
mechanical calculators and, 96
Boole, George, 89–91
Boolean algebra (or logic)
description of, 89–92
digital electronic calculator and, 114, 122
relay switches and, 100–1
Brainerd, John Grist, 110–11, 121, 152
Branching in computer programs. See Conditional jumps
Brattain, Walter, 227–8
Briggs, Henry, 7–9
BRL. See Ballistics Research Laboratory
Broomall, John, 135
Brown, Gordon S., 196
Burks, Arthur, 98, 154
Burroughs, William S., 81–2
Burroughs Adding Machine Company, 182–4, 220, 250, 259
Burroughs calculator, 82–3
Bush, Vannevar, 86–8, 100, 108, 113, 137, 139
Bushnell, Nolan, 279
Busicom, 261–4
Business machine industry (1928-1945), 183–4
Bybee, Jim, 272–3
Byron, Augusta Ada (Countess of Lovelace), 64–5
Byte, 275
Byte shop, 279