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THE DISCOVERY OF ELECTRICITY 7
THE MODERN CONCEPT OF MATTER 11
THE DIODE 18
THE TRIODE 26
MULTI-ELEMENT TUBES 36
ELECTRON-TUBE OSCILLATORS 43
ELECTRON-TUBE APPLICATIONS IN IBM 47
THE TUBE-CONTROLLXD SORTER
47
THE Traffic RECORDER
50
THE Electronic TIME CONTROL System
54
ELECTRONIC MARK sensing
56
ELECTRONIC CALCULATORS 59
THE TYPE 604 STORAGE UNIT
59
SWITCHING CIRCUITS
65
Electrostatic STORAGE
67
Electromagnetic STORAGE,
68
THE SSEC 71
ELECTRONIC DATA-PROCESSING MACHINE 73
APPENDIX 74
BIBLIOGRAPHY 77
INDEX 78