Before memex: Robert Hooke, John Locke, and Vannevar Bush on external memory

Science in Context

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 21-47

  Yeo, Richard ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

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