A history of computing technology
A history of computing technology
Artificial experts: social knowledge and intelligent machines
Artificial experts: social knowledge and intelligent machines
Trends in current analog design—a panel debate
Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing
InfoCulture: The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions
InfoCulture: The Smithsonian Book of Information Age Inventions
Analog and Hybrid Computing
A History of Control Engineering 1930-1955
A History of Control Engineering 1930-1955
Tidal Calculations in The Netherlands
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
General-Purpose Electronic Analog Computing: 1945-1965
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Edwin L. Harder and the Anacom: Analog Computing at Westinghouse
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
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The example of the electrical analyzer, a genre of computing artifacts known mainly by their development and use in the context of electrification, is treated as representative of the historical oscillation between analog and digital computing orientations. Artificial electric lines, short-circuit calculating boards, and alternating current network analyzers are discussed as examples of electrical analyzers. Counting on the successful employment of the ideology of intelligent machines in the context of the history of the electrical analyzer, the first part of the article searches for a direct ancestor of the post-World War II computing ideology. The second part of the article proposes to interpret the ideology of intelligent machines as an effect related to the social conditions of the appropriation of computing labor. Overall, the article argues about the historical, i.e., antiessentialist, character of the demarcation of digital from analog orientation