『When Computers Were Human』目次

David Alan Grier
（2005年刊行, Princeton University Press, Princeton, x+412 pp., ISBN:0691091579 [hbk] → 版元ページ）

「コンピューター」が “計算機” ではなく “計算人” を意味していた時代の話．前から気になっていた本．とくに “計算人” といえば「女性の知的職業」のひとつだったとのこと．

【目次】
Introduction: A Grandmother's Secret Life 1

Part I: Astronomy and the Division of Labor 1682–1880 9

Chapter One — The First Anticipated Return: Halley's Comet 1758 11
Chapter Two — The Children of Adam Smith 26
Chapter Three — The Celestrial Factory: Halley's Comet 1835 46
Chapter Four — The American Prime Meridian 55
Chapter Five — A Carpet for the Computing Room 72

Part II: Mass Production and New Fields of Science 1880–1930 89

Chapter Six — Looking Forward, Looking Backward: Machinery 1893 91
Chapter Seven — Darwin's Cousins 102
Chapter Eight — Breaking from the Ecllipse: Halley's Comet 1910 119
Chapter Nine — Captains of Academe 126
Chapter Ten — War Production 145
Chapter Eleven — Fruits of the Conflict: Machinery 1922 159

Part III: Professional Computers and an Independent Discipline 1930–1964 175

Chapter Twelve — The Best of Bad Times 177
Chapter Thirteen — Scientific Relief 198
Chapter Fourteen — Tools of the Trade: Machinery 1937 220
Chapter Fifteen — Professional Ambition 233
Chapter Sixteen — The Midtown New York Glide Bomb Club 256
Chapter Seventeen — The Victor's Share 276
Chapter Eighteen — I Alone Am Left to Tell Thee 298
Epilogue — Final Passage: Halley's Comet 1986 318Acknowledgments 323
Appendix: Recurring Characters, Institutions, and Concepts 325
Notes 333
Research Notes and Bibliography 373
Index 401
Illustration Credits 412