A review by mssarahmorgan
The Man Who Invented the Computer: The Biography of John Atanasoff, Digital Pioneer by Jane Smiley

4.0

Not just the story of the man who invented the computer but also of other people who invented computers secretly from spare parts in Nazi Germany or to break codes in wartime England and could never speak about their work...or stole the idea for the computer and succeeded in taking all the credit...now I just need to find a book that explains how we got from room-filling calculating machines to this iPad.