Comparison of electrical "engineering" of heaviside's times and software "engineering" of our times

IEEE Annals of the History of Computing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 5-16

  Baber, Robert L ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING; HISTORY; TELEGRAPH SYSTEMS; TELEPHONE SYSTEMS;

ELECTRICAL TELEGRAPHY; PRE ENGINEERING; TELEPHONY;

SOFTWARE ENGINEERING;

EID: 0031246217     PISSN: 10586180     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/85.627895     Document Type: Article

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