Analogue Alternative: The Electronic Analogue Computer in Britain and the USA, 1930-1975 (Routledge Studies in the History of Science, Technology and Medicine)

From the late 1940s to the 1970s, analogue technology was seen as a genuine alternative to the digital computer, and the two competing approaches ran parallel with each other. The Analogue Alternative describes and analyzes the development, commercialization and ultimate decline of the electronic analogue computer in the USA and Britain.