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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Pages intact with minimal writing/highlighting. The binding may be loose and creased. Dust jackets/supplements are not included. Stock photo provided. Product includes identifying sticker. Better World Books: Buy Books. Do Good.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Paperback. Zustand: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. 1st Edition. 71 Pp. Full Red Cloth Stamped In Green, Orange, Pink, Blue, And Black; Spine Lettered In Green And Stamped In Black. The Original Printing, Full Cloth, Title Page Showing Raphael Tuck & Sons, Ltd., No. 801, Designed And Printed In England, Publisher's To Their Majesties The King And Queen & T. R. H. The Prince And Princess Of Wales. Undated, Circa 1907. Light Usage, No Marks, Bright, Small Discolorations To Front Cover. This Uk Issue In Red Cloth Is Rare, But The Reprints In Boards, And The New York Editions, Are Not Uncommon. Full Color Frontispiece, Two-Color Illustrations And B/W Ilustrations In Text. (illustrator).…

Hardcover. Zustand: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo (267 x 200mm), pp. [xvi], 561, [3], with 17 numbered plates (including frontispiece), text illustrations (slight toning). Publisher's dark blue cloth. A fine copy. First edition. The electromechanical Harvard Mark I was the first programmable calculating machine to produce mathematical tables, thus realizing the dream of Charles Babbage originally set out in print in 1822. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was the brainchild of Howard Aiken, who first conceived of building a powerful, large-scale calculating machine in 1935 while pursuing graduate studies in physics at Harvard University. In 1937, after Aiken had become a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard's Graduate School of Engineering, he proposed his idea to a number of calculating-machine manufacturers, receiving several rejections before finally convincing IBM to undertake the project. The manual represents the work of a great many people whose efforts have been closely integrated as is necessary in the operation of large-scale calculating machines." Provenance: Brooks J. Lockhart (signature is on the front free endpaper). Lockhart was the primary author of the Manual's sixth chapter concerning the solution of simple problems using the Mark I. "American computing pioneer Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973) first conceived of building a powerful, large-scale calculating machine in 1935 while pursuing graduate studies in physics at Harvard University. In 1937, after Aiken had become a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard's Graduate School of Engineering, he proposed his idea to a number of calculating-machine manufacturers, drafting a proposal for an automatic calculating machine, and receiving several rejections before finally convincing IBM to undertake the project. The project, known initially as Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), and later called the Harvard Mark I, was partly funded by money from the United States Navy; the remainder came from IBM, whose president, Thomas J. Watson, viewed the undertaking as good publicity and as a showcase for IBM''s talents. By January 1943 the machine was operational at IBM Endicott Labs under wartime security. The completed electromechanical calculating machine weighed five tons. "Construction of the Mark I was completed in early 1943, and a year later the machine was dismantled and shipped to Harvard, where it became operational in May 1944. The electromechanical machine solved addition problems in less than a second, multiplication in six seconds, and division in 12 seconds. Grace Hopper wrote some of its first programs, which ran on punched tape. "In 1946 Aiken and Grace Hopper published A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. The instruction sequences scattered throughout this volume on the Harvard Mark I were among the earliest published examples of digital computer programs. Aiken saw himself as Babbage's intellectual successor, and in an excellent historical introduction to this technical manual he and Hopper placed the Harvard Mark I in its historical context. The computer historian Paul Ceruzzi implies as much in the following description: '[The Harvard Mark I] manual was a milepost that marked the state of the art of machine computation at one of its critical places: where, for the first time, machines could automatically evaluate arbitrary sequences of arithmetic operations. "The operating manual for the Mark I calculator published as Volume 1 of the Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University was written largely by Hopper, who was the chief author of chapters 1-3 and the eight appendices following chapter 6. Chapters 4 and 5 were written by Aiken and Robert Campbell, and chapter 6, containing directions for solving sample problems on the machine, was primarily the work of Brooks J. Lockhart" (historyofinformation). Bottom corner slightly bumped. In fine condition in custom clamshell box. 8½" - 11½". book.…

Cloth. Zustand: Near Fine. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Fair. First Edition. First Edition. xvi, [2], 336 pages. 4to [10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches]. Publisher's blue cloth. The rare dust jacket is present, albeit chipped, stained, and worn (especially at foredges). Bright and clean internally. Cloth. "The electromechanical Harvard Mark I was the first programmable calculating machine to actually produce mathematical tables, fulfilling the dream of Charles Babbage originally set out in print in 1822." (OOC, #411) "The manual for the Harvard Mark II, a relay-based calculator built for the navy during the last year of World War II. It was installed at the Naval Proving Ground in Dahlgren, Virginia, in 1948, where it was used mainly for the development of ballistics tables. The Mark II's design did not depart radically from that of its predecessor in that it employed electromechanical equipment and was programmed via paper tapes, 'but otherwise it was very different. Where the Mark I used rotary mechanical systems (with magnetic clutches) for storing numbers, the Mark II used relays. The way of programming it was very different (i.e. the instruction set was different). The fact that it was essentially two machines which could be combined for large jobs or have each half running independent jobs was quite different.' (MRW Other innovations included a floating decimal point and a new type of relay. It was considerably faster than the Mark I . The Manual for the Harvard Mark II calculator was written primarily by Grace Hopper, assisted by Constance K. Rawson, Peter O. Cioffi and Richard D. Woltman. It was completed by Charles H. Richards and K. B. Mitchell" (OOC) Volume XXIV of the Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University. All volumes in the series were heavily used, and finding copies in dust jacket is getting difficult. Literature: Hook and Norman, Origins of Cyberspace, #416, 411 (referring to Mark I).…

Soft cover. Zustand: Near Fine. 1st Edition. Proceedings of the IRE, Vol 41, October 1953, No. 10, the entire issue offered. Pictorial wrappers. The famous 1953 "IRE Computer Issue" in the original wrappers containing ten (!!!) Origins of Cyberspace articles and a total of forty-one articles on the state of the art computing. Many authors were influential, on the cutting edge of computing, and are found throughout the historical literature tracking technical and business innovations throughout their careers. A few of the essential papers include: Claude Shannon, "Computers and Automata" (Origins of Cyberspace #885) --- contains a brief review of developments in the field of automata and non-numerical computation Claude Shannon and Moore, "Machine aid for switching circuit design" (Origins of Cyberspace #886) --- describes the first "verification" machine, built at Bell Labs and called the" relay circuit analyzer." Grace Hopper and John Mauchly, "Influence of programming technique on the design of computers" (Origins of Cyberspace #664) --- contains a discussion of how advances in programming techniques could influence the design of future computers. This article references the UNIVAC I. Huskey, Ambrose, and Yowell, "The SWAC design features and operating experience" (Origins of Cyberspace #672) --- contains a general description of the functional characteristics of the SWAC computer, including references to electrostatic and magnetic drum memories. Buchholz, "The system design of the IBM Type 701 computer" (Origins of Cyberspace #508) --- describes the overall system design of IBM's first electronic digital computer And many more period articles. 8¼" - 11". Book.…

Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine. First Edition. First Edition. [1A]-80A (advertisements), [2-table contents], 1219-1568, 81A-192A (advertisements) pages. 11 x 8 1/2 inches. Proceedings of the IRE, Vol 41, October 1953, No. 10, the entire issue offered. Pictorial wrappers. The previous owner's name, "Ken Atwood," is inked on the front cover. Upper spine bumped with associated creasing. A very nice example. Scarce thus. Wraps. The famous 1953 "IRE Computer Issue" in the original wrappers containing ten (!!!) Origins of Cyberspace articles and a total of forty-one articles on the state of the art computing. Many authors were influential, on the cutting edge of computing, and are found throughout the historical literature tracking technical and business innovations throughout their careers. A few of the essential papers include: Claude Shannon, "Computers and Automata" (Origins of Cyberspace #885) --- contains a brief review of developments in the field of automata and non-numerical computation Claude Shannon and Moore, "Machine aid for switching circuit design" (Origins of Cyberspace #886) --- describes the first "verification" machine, built at Bell Labs and called the" relay circuit analyzer." Grace Hopper and John Mauchly, "Influence of programming technique on the design of computers" (Origins of Cyberspace #664) --- contains a discussion of how advances in programming techniques could influence the design of future computers. This article references the UNIVAC I. Huskey, Ambrose, and Yowell, "The SWAC design features and operating experience" (Origins of Cyberspace #672) --- contains a general description of the functional characteristics of the SWAC computer, including references to electrostatic and magnetic drum memories. Buchholz, "The system design of the IBM Type 701 computer" (Origins of Cyberspace #508) --- describes the overall system design of IBM's first electronic digital computer And many more period articles. PROVENANCE: There were no copies of this item in Shannon's files. This item comes from Kuenzig Books' stock. REFERENCES: Sloane and Wyner, "Claude Elwood Shannon Collected Papers," #80 and #82. Hook and Norman, "Origins of Cyberspace," #s 508, 513, 626, 641, 664, 672, 675, 871, 885, and 886.…

First edition, rare in the dust jacket, of the first computer programming textbook: the operating manual for the electromechanical Harvard Mark I. It was largely written by Grace Hopper, "one of the most famous of the postwar computer pioneers" (OOC). This copy was owned by the inventor and environmentalist Theodore Miller Edison, the son of Thomas Edison. Designed by Howard Aiken (1900-1973) and operational from May 1944, the Harvard Mark I was almost immediately commandeered for war work by the US Navy. Hopper (1906-1992) - who had joined Aiken's team that year and quickly become its lead programmer - was tasked with writing an instruction manual for it, "a task so monumental that she referred to her project as a computer 'bible'. It was a detailed treatment of Mark I's physical components, operation, and maintenance. Most importantly, the manual described with elaborate care how to program Mark I, thus becoming the first ever computer programming textbook" (Harvard). It was published as the first volume of the Annals of the Computation Laboratory. Hopper was involved in a number of other influential technological developments. She was central to the development of UNIVAC and pioneered compiler technology. She also co-developed the commercial language COBOL. An addressed card stating that this copy was from the library of Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992) is loosely inserted; his purchase notes are also pencilled on the front free endpaper. As a child, Edison's interest in science led him to be known in his family as "the little laboratory assistant", and he went on to serve as the Technical Director of Research and Engineering for his father's company. He also founded his own firm, Calibron Industries, Inc., which became famous for the Calibron 12 puzzle. Edison accumulated over 80 patents in his career, including for a device that eliminated vibration in machinery and a stereoscopic mapping instrument. Origins of Cyberspace 411. "Harvard IBM Mark I", Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, accessible online. Quarto. With 17 black-and-white photographic plates, diagrams and tables within text. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Cloth and contents clean, spine ends gently rubbed, bumps to extremities; jacket unclipped, spine faded, nicks to top edge, covers lightly soiled: a very good copy in like jacket.…