Gleick, James. <br/><br/>
The information :  a history, a theory, a flood / 
James Gleick. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  Pantheon Books,  c2011. 
 - 526 p. :  ill. ;  25 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 429-503) and index. 
<br/><br/> Traces the history of information technology from the invention of scripts and alphabets to the twenty-first century, and profiles individuals who contributed to advances, including Charles Babbage, inventor of the first mechanical computer, Ada Byron, the first true programmer Samuel Morse, Alan Turing, and others. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780375423727 (trade) 0375423729 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2010023221 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Information science--History.<br/>Information society.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>020/.9