The computer
Subtitle: passport to the digital age
By: Joanne Mattern.
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Reading power; Technology that changed the world
Publisher: PowerKids Press
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 24
Subjects: Electronic digital computers -- Juvenile literature.; Computers -- History.
Genres: Juvenile literature.
Description: Presents information on computers, from the abacus to the laptop, including their invention, history, how modern-day computers work, and how they have affected people's lives.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 23) and index.
Table of contents: title: Smart machines; title: The first computers; title: How computers work; title: The Internet; title: Computers in business and at home.