When Computers Were Human

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Contents:
Introduction: A Grandmother's Secret Life
Part I Astronomy and the Division of Labor 1682-1880
Chapter 1 The First Anticipated Return: Halley's Comet 1758
Chapter 2 The Children of Adam Smith
Chapter 3 The Celestial Factory: Halley's Comet 1835
Chapter 4 The American Prime Meridian
Chapter 5 A Carpet for the Computing Room
Part II Mass Production and New Fields of Science 1880-1930
Chapter 6 Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Machinery 1893
Chapter 7 Darwin's Cousins
Chapter 8 Breaking from the Ellipse: Halley's Comet 1910
Chapter 9 Captains of Academe
Chapter 10 War Production
Chapter 11 Fruits of the Conflict: Machinery 1922
Part III Professional Computers and an Independent Discipline 1930-1964
Chapter 12 The Best of Bad Times
Chapter 13 Scientific Relief
Chapter 14 Tools of the Trade: Machinery 1937
Chapter 15 Professional Ambition
Chapter 16 The Midtown New York Glide Bomb Club
Chapter 17 The Victor's Share
Chapter 18 I Alone Am Left to Tell Thee
Epilogue: Final Passage: Halley's Comet 1986
Acknowledgments
Appendix: Recurring Characters, Institutions, and Concepts
Notes 333 Research Notes and Bibliography