Computing History: Recent Episodes
Chris McKenzie
A very careful chronology of computing history, told from multiple angles and both starting and ending before the first digital computers were ever made. This is the first large attempt at a BC (before computers) chronology of computers.
This week we conclude the timeline part of our journey with a 44 minute episode. Sorry it took 2 weeks to make. There’s a lot…Continue Reading1.5 The Journey to the Electric Wire Part 2
This week’s episode is a 10 minute original play based on the Flamsteed/Newton controversy surrounding the 1712 version of Historia Coelestis Britannica, based on the work…Continue Reading1.4 The Stolen Stars: A Dramatization of the Flamsteed/Newton Controversy
Let’s go over early electricity. But first we have to go over early science. We start with Stephen Gray who explored the phenomena of electricity in…Continue Reading1.3 The Journey to the Electric Wire Part 1
A mini-episode talking about engineering complexity, manufacturing and our perceptions of simplicity.
The history of the would be telegraph from 1752 up to about 1785. During a period when many dreamed of electric communications but did not…Continue Reading1.1 The Dream of Electric Communications Part 1
Long before Apple and Microsoft and even before the code breaking machines of World War 2, the computer revolution was taking shape in business, communications,…Continue Reading0. Introducing the Computer History Podcast