Computer Collection (page 5)

Book of English Life Tables, 1864 (litho)
3527174 Book of English Life Tables, 1864 (litho) by English School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: These life assurance tables were calculated by the Scheutz Difference Engine No 3)

Calculating Machine, by George B Grant (engraving)
1092688 Calculating Machine, by George B Grant (engraving) by American School, (19th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: Calculating Machine, by George B Grant)

Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (engraving)
875068 Portrait of Augusta Ada King (1815 - 1852), Countess of Lovelace (engraving). by Chalon, Alfred-Edward (1780-1860); Private Collection; (add.info.: Augusta Ada King)

Detail of the Scheutz Difference Engine No 3, 1859 (metal)
3527176 Detail of the Scheutz Difference Engine No 3, 1859 (metal) by Scheutz, Edvard (1821-81) & Scheutz, Per Georg (1785-1873); Private Collection; (add.info)

Sunday breakfast
Tatyana Tomsickova

Woman in Pink
Perfecky

Cubicle Life
Vincent Kohar

I Surrender
Petri Damstén

The window for the light, the apple for the job
Carlo Ferrara

Matrıx
Kadir

Apple core
Christian Roustan (Kikroune)

Email
Lorenzo Ravasco

Blind Justice
Petri Damstén

Formula 1
Dmitry Skvortsov

The result of the destruction of the environment
Takashi Suzuki

Beryl Warner in the Control Room at Cambridge Fire Station, 3rd March 1986

New York Police, communication centre. 13th February 1981

Ministry of Social Security. 41 year old James Newton at the computer which has a file on every working person and pensioner in Britain. Long Benton, Newcastle Upon Tyne. 13th April 1967

Ministry of Social Security. Pictured, staff and the control section of the computer which has a file on every working person and pensioner in Britain. Long Benton, Newcastle Upon Tyne

National Computing Centre in Quay Street, Manchester. Pictured is member of staff Noreen Owen, 18. 30th May 1967

Space Invader machines in a pub. 1980

The Cherry Translator. A personal computer-on-a-chip that translates languages, launched by Cherry Leisure. 9th May 1979

Pupils John Dunhill, seated, and Matthew Begg, both aged 15, demonstrate the new computer to Enron deputy power station manager Phill Stokes, left and teacher Norman Willey at Eston Park School

Two lucky children surrounded by a selection of electronic games available in the shops this year. 8th December 1982

A lucky child surrounded by a selection of electronic games available in the shops this year. 8th December 1982

A young boy and girl with a selection of childrens toys for Christmas. December 1980

Ann Boardman aged 20, changes a tape reel on the computer, Circa 1970

Computer Services Centre Ltd, new centre in Long Lane, Aintree, Liverpool, Circa 1970. Invoices in process of being printed and ready to send out

Liverpool Corporations new assistant, a three hundred thousand computer, makes its debut when the Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Alderman Herbert Allen put the machine into operation by pressing a button

Newlands School, Middlesbrough, 12th March 1998. Pupils are producing their own newspaper, The Orbiter, for a competition

Business people joined pupils for breakfast at the launch of an Information Technology development Initiative at St Davids RC School, Acklam

Computers at Leasco Offices, Reading, September 1980

Daily Mirror Ruggles feature on the the team at the National Physical Laboratory, Teddington, developing the Automatic Computing Engine known as the Pilot ACE

When ICI Wilton presented a BBC Micro Computer to Abingdon Road Infants School, Middlesbrough, the children didn t take long too enjoy working and playing on it

Pupils turned businessmen and women at Brunner Comprehensive School, Billingham - and most made a profit. The 75, 15-year-old boys and girls were taking part in the first business game at the school

War Machines used by intelligent computer, WOTAN, in Doctor Who BBC TV Series, Episodes titled The War Machines. First aired 25th June 1966

Information Assistant for P. A studio at Gatwick Airport, Suzanne Thompson
Information Assistant for P.A studio at Gatwick Airport, Suzanne Thompson. 21st June 1983

Aircraft noise research at R. A. E Farnborough. 25th May 1968
Aircraft noise research at R.A.E Farnborough. 25th May 1968

Teachers and pupils try out the new computers in Bilton High Schools IT classroom. 26th September 1988

Daily Mirror Newsroom, Editorial Floor, Holborn, London, Circa 1990

Denise Welch and husband Tim Healy open the new Open Learning Centre at Norham Community High School in North Shields 8 May 1992, pictured with David Parker, white shirt

Royal Ballet Company dancers Lesley Collier aged 22 from Orpington and Marilyn Thompson, 21 from San Francisco, practice their printed out dance routine

A teenager plays Space Invaders at an amusements arcade in Cardiff June 1981

Robot Teacher September 1962 Sarah Stacey student from Reading aged 13 years old - Pictured with International Tutor Machines ITM designed purpose teaching machine - the first of their kind

Robot Teacher September 1962 Rognvald Gunn student from Henley aged 14 years old - pictured with International Tutor Machines ITM designed purpose teaching machine - the first of their kind

School Children during computer lesson, 1996

David Banks Actor November 96 Actor who stars as Max in Canary Wharf the Soap Opera

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