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Napoleon,
see
Bonaparte,

Napoleon

Macready, William
2
,
112

National Cash Register Company

magnetic tape
244
,
251

(NCR)
184

6
,
194

300

Index

Newstead Abbey (Byron’s ancestral

punched card technology
196

7

home)
146

Jacquard loom
5
,
35

8

CB
47

9
,
85

92
,
90
,
138

42
,

on/off switches
88
,
240
,
245

139

Ordnance Survey (France)
60

3

HH
151

2
,
159

72
,
166
,
167
,

Owen, Richard
2

173

4

modern applications
237
,
246
,

Packard, David
245

248

52
,
250

pantograph punch
165

6
,
166

Pascal, Blaise
68

9

rational calendar
28

Passages from the Life of a Philosopher

Reform Act (
1832
)
104

(CB’s autobiography)
54

5
,

Remington Rand
194
,
197

8

66
,
86

9
,
91
,
95

7
,
134

5
,

Roosevelt, President
201

221
,
233

New Deal
199

200
,
201

Patterson, John H.
184

6
,
187
,

Royal Astronomical Society
65

6
,

188
,
199

76
,
83
,
216

Peacock, George
57

Royal Society
59
,
68
,
76
,
103

Peel, Sir Robert
102

4
,
105

8
,

Russian Census (
1896
)
175

107
,
110

12
,
114

15

Pentium chip
248

sales force motivation
184

6
,

Piedmont and Sardinia, Queen of

187

9
,
199

97

scanners
43
,
169

pixels
253

4
,
256
,
282

Scher, Richard K.
251

2

Plana, Giovanni
95

6
,
101

2
,

Science Museum, London
5
,
85
,

110

265

9

Post Office Research Laboratories,

semiconductors
247

London
246

7

Shanks, William
68

Potter, Harry
258

Signs of the Times
(Carlyle)
115

powered loom
42

3

Si Ling-Chi
7

Powers, James (HH’s rival)
170
,

silk
4
,
14
,
30

197

8

history
7

8

printing
62

3
,
171

2
,
208
,
228

industry
8

9
,
13
,
14

16
,
20

1
,

processing time
240
,
247

8

35
,
86

processor
49
,
88

9
,
234
,
248

slide rule
209

programming
5
,
43
,
49
,
86

91
,

Smith, Adam
61

170
,
227

8
,
248

9

Society for the Furtherance of

proposal for modern computer

National Industry
33

4

220

5

Social Security Act (
1935
)
201

2

301

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