Calculation

Authors: Wickström, Ulf
Contains a unique description of a complete set of parameters applicable to the entire field of fire safety engineering
Presents diagrams and formulas which facilitate fire safety engineering calculations
Offers new models for pre- and post-flashover compartment fires

Although it is popularly assumed that the history of computing before the second half of the 20th century was unimportant, in fact the Industrial Revolution was made possible and even sustained by a parallel revolution in computing technology. An examination and historiographical assessment of key developments helps to show how the era of modern electronic computing proceeded from a continual computing revolution that had arisen during the mechanical and the electrical ages.