Contents1 Universal Machines
2 The Blue Pig
3 Prolific Piglets: Computers everywhere
4 A World Out of Control
5 Babbage: A 'Difference Engine' that made a difference?
6 The Analytical Engine
7 Accidental Information
8 Information on the Masses
9 The Spur of War
10 Zuse in Nazi Germany
11 American Speed
12 Turing in Secret Britain
13 Foundations Shaken
14 Mathematics: Truth or game?
15 Crisis Looms
16 Turing and the Decision Problem
17 Government Codes
18 The Computer
19 Minding the Gap: Many universal machines
20 Cold War Minds
21 Materialisation Further Reading
Jon Agar is an historian at Manchester University, and manages the National Archive for the History of Computing
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