Who Invented the Computer?

In 1973, Federal District Judge Earl R Larson issued a ruling in a patent case that was to have profound and long-lasting implications for the dawning computer revolution. With meticulous research, Alice Rowe Burks examines both the trial and its aftermath, presenting telling evidence in convincing and absorbing fashion, and leaving no doubt about the actual originator of what has been called the greatest invention of the 20th century.