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Inventing the Future (2/4)


This is also part of this series: Machine that Changed the World, The (4)

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Subjects: Anthropology, History, Science, Technology

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: BBC
Closed Captioned: No		 Running Time: 50 mins
Country of Origin: Great Britain
Study Guide: No
Copyright Date: 1991
Available in French: No

Part two of history of computers looks at how pioneers failed at first to sell their ideas for during the 50s,though Joe Lyons (in UK) & Remington Rand (in US) eventually started to manufacture them,& they started to take off in the 60s.

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