Internet:

• http://www.comlab.ox.ac.uk/archive/other/museums/computing.html        This site includes an eclectic collection of World Wide Web (WWW) hyperlinks connected with the history of computing and on-line computer-based exhibits available both locally and around the world.
• http://www.astr.ua.edu/4000WS/4000WS.html                                       This site displays women's work in science over 4000 years. It's a very good site if people are interested in women who worked in the past.
• http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/calculators.html                                              This is a good site to start one's computer project from. It tells us about how calculation actually started that led to todays computer.
• People and Pioneers of Computer History: http://ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/people.html

The following books and articles were used in preparing parts of this Web page. Other information has come from "private communications" with knowledgeable individuals.

Books:

• A good book to read and explore about computers :                                       Palfreman, Jon, and Doron Swade. The Dream Machine: Exploring the Computer Age, BBC Books, London, 1991, 208 pp.
• Women and Computer History:                                                      Weisbard, P. H. (editor) "The history of Women and science, health and technology," a bibliographic guide to the professions and the disciplines. second edition, 1993, University of Wisconsin System Women's Studies Librarian.
• Asimov, I., 1982, "Biographical Encyclopedia of Science and Technology," Doubleday

 

 

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