Researching this book was so much fun. I used all sorts of sources and stumbled across even more resources for curious young minds! If you are interested in learning more about computer history (and you definitely should!) check out some of these awesome books, websites videos and museums!
Books
Barnes-Svarney, Patricia L., and Thomas E. Svarney. The Handy Math Answer Book. Canton, MI: Visible Ink Press, 2012.
Boyer, Carl B., and Merzbach, Uta C. A History of Mathematics. 3rd ed. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley, 2010.
Campbell-Kelly, Martin, William Aspray, Nathan Ensmenger, and Jeffrey R. Yost. A History of the Information Machine. 3rd ed. The Sloan Technology Series. Milton Park, UK: Routledge, 2013.
Ceruzzi, Paul E. Computing: A Concise History. The MIT Press Essential Knowledge Series. Cambridge, MA: The MIT Press, 2012.
Evans, Harold. They Made America: From the Steam Engine to the Search Engine: Two Centuries of Innovators. New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2004.
Freiberger, Paul, and Michael Swaine. Fire in the Valley: The Birth and Death of the Personal Computer. Raleigh, NC: The Pragmatic Bookshelf, 2014.
Garfinkel, Simson L. The Computer Book: From the Abacus to Artificial Intelligence, 250 Milestones in the History of Computer Science. New York: Sterling, 2018.
Igarashi, Yoshihide, et al. Computing: A Historical and Technical Perspective. Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press, 2014.
Lam, Lay Yong, and Ang Tian Se. Fleeting Footsteps: Tracing the Conception of Arithmetic and Algebra in Ancient China. Singapore: World Scientific Publishing Company, 2004.
McCullough, Brian. How the Internet Happened: From Netscape to the iPhone. New York: Liveright, 2018.
Seife, Charles, and Matt Zimet. Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea. London: Penguin Books, 2014.
Walsh, Toby. Android Dreams: The Past, Present and Future of Artificial Intelligence. London: C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd, 2017.
Wozniak, Steve, and Gina Smith. iWoz: Computer Geek to Cult Icon: How I Invented the Personal Computer, Co-Founded Apple, and Had
Museums
Computer History Museum
1401 N. Shoreline Boulevard
Mountain View, CA 94043
computerhistory.org
Living Computers: Museum + Labs
2245 First Avenue S.
Seattle, WA 98134
livingcomputers.org
WEBSITES
The ACM A.M. Turing Award: https://www.amturing.acm.org
Bletchley Park: https://www.bletchleypark.org.uk
The Doug Engelbart Institute: https://www.dougengelbart.org
The Electronic Frontier Foundation: https://www.eff.org/
The Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers: https://www.ieee.org
The Internet Archive: https://archive.org/
The International Spy Museum: https://www.spymuseum.org
The Museum of Play: https://www.museumofplay.org
The National Inventors Hall of Fame: https://www.invent.org
The National Museum of Computing: https://www.tnmoc.org
The National Science Foundation: https://www.nsf.gov
The Pew Research Center: www. https://www.pewresearch.org/
The United States Census Bureau: https://www.census.gov/history
Films and Videos:
Computer History Museum: Computer Pioneers
Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qundvme1Tik&t=861s
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsirYCAocZk
Dartmouth: Birth of BASIC
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYPNjSoDrqw
PBS Crash Course Artificial Intelligence
https://www.pbs.org/show/crash-course-artificial-intelligence/
PBS Crash Course Computer Science
https://www.pbs.org/show/crash-course-computer-science/
SRI's "Mother of All Demos", Dec. 9, 1968: Hypertext Linkages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74c8LntW7fo
The Computers: The Remarkable Story of the ENIAC Programmers
https://vimeo.com/ondemand/eniac6