Author: Pugh, Emerson W.
Title: Building IBM. Shaping an Industry and Its Technology
Description: Cambridge, MIT Press, (1995). orig.cloth. 24x16cm, xvi, 405 pp. Textual photos & tables. Minor rubbing, VG. dustwrapper ¶ Contents: Hollerith: Inventor & Entrepreneur; Origins of IBM; Watson: A Man with a Mission; Building an Engineering Organization; Responding to the Great Depression; Support for Academic Research; Research for Patents &Devices; World War II Activities; Future Demands; Preparing for Peace; Government-Funded Competition; IBM's Initial Response; Watson, Jr. Takes Charge; Programming Computers; An Air Defense System; Chasing New Technologies; Legacy; Gambling on System; Commitment & Delivery; Onrush of Technology; Demands of the Future.

Keywords: History of Technology, Computing, Computers, Computer Industry, IBM, International, Business Machines, Engineering, Industrial