Authors: James Essinger
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
on/off switches
88
,
240
,
245
Ordnance Survey (France)
60
–
3
Owen, Richard
2
modern applications
237
,
246
,
Packard, David
245
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
Roosevelt, President
201
New Deal
199
–
200
,
201
Patterson, John H.
184
–
6
,
187
,
Royal Astronomical Society
65
–
6
,
Peacock, George
57
Royal Society
59
,
68
,
76
,
103
Peel, Sir Robert
102
–
4
,
105
–
8
,
Russian Census (
1896
)
175
Pentium chip
248
sales force motivation
184
–
6
,
Piedmont and Sardinia, Queen of
scanners
43
,
169
pixels
253
–
4
,
256
,
282
Scher, Richard K.
251
–
2
Plana, Giovanni
95
–
6
,
101
–
2
,
Science Museum, London
5
,
85
,
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
history
7
–
8
printing
62
–
3
,
171
–
2
,
208
,
228
industry
8
–
9
,
13
,
14
–
16
,
20
–
1
,
processing time
240
,
247
–
8
processor
49
,
88
–
9
,
234
,
248
slide rule
209
programming
5
,
43
,
49
,
86
–
91
,
Smith, Adam
61
Society for the Furtherance of
proposal for modern computer
National Industry
33
–
4
Social Security Act (
1935
)
201
–
2
301