Editing Engineering Research Associates (section)

==''High-speed Computing Devices''==
In 1950, ERA published ''High-speed Computing Devices,''<ref>{{cite book |author1=The staff of Engineering Research Associates, Inc. |editor1-last=Stiffler |editor1-first=W. W. |title=High-speed Computing Devices |publisher=McGraw Hill Book Company, Inc. |url=https://archive.org/details/bitsavers_eraHighSpe950_30096406/ |accessdate=2020-02-20}}</ref> a 450-page textbook that summarized the state of computer technology at that time. It describes the basic components of digital logic, the devices and circuits used to build these components, and the principles of computer design and programming. This book was a revision of a report submitted to the [[Office of Naval Research]], omitting references to cryptography; [[Mina Rees]], then director of the ONR mathematical section, suggested that it should be published.

One of the book's most successful predictions concerned the [[transistor]], which had recently been invented at [[Bell Labs|Bell Laboratories]]: "It will probably be competitive with the electron tube in total cost per stage." (page 423)