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Stevens, Norman – Wilson Library Bulletin, 1983
Presents overview of library uses of automation, noting the earliest example of a "black box" in 1588, the "indicator" invented in England in 1863, various forms of card catalogs, and computer solutions posed by Vannevar Bush, J. C. R. Licklider, Project Intrex, and John G. Kemeny. Ten references are cited. (EJS)
Descriptors: Computer Science, Foreign Countries, History, Inventions
