calculating instruments machines (12 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: New. pp. 152.

Zustand: Good. This is an ex-library book and may have the usual library/used-book markings inside.This book has hardback covers. In good all round condition. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item,550grams, ISBN:

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reissue edition. 138 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.50 inches. In Stock.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 154 pages. 8.98x5.98x0.71 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Good. First Edition. Very good hardback copy in slightly shelfworn dustjacket. ix, 138pp., b/w illustrations Size: 9.75" x 6.5" (25x17cms). Book.

IX, 138 pp. with a lot of illusrations, Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 510 Groß 8°, Original-Leinen (Hardcover), Bibliotheks-Exemplar (ordnungsgemäß entwidmet), Stempel auf Titel, insgesamt gutes und innen sauberes Exemplar, (library copy in good condition),

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. 112 pages. 9.00x7.00x0.26 inches. In Stock.

Hardcover. Zustand: very good. First Edition. This book was based on a short series of lectures given by the author at the University of Illinois in 1948. Intended as a general introduction illustrated by Hartree's personal experiences working with ENIAC and the Harvard Mark I, a pioneering work with calculating instruments and machines. Author's first book. Douglas Rayner Hartree FRS was an English mathematician and physicist most famous for the development of numerical analysis and its application to the Hartree Fock equations of atomic physics and the construction of a differential analyzer using Meccano. Boards with light edge-wear. First Edition. 7" - 10". Book.

Baxandall, David. Catalogue of the collections in the Science Museum, South Kensington, with descriptive and historical notes and illustrations. Mathematics. I. Calculating machines and instruments. London: H. M. Stationery Office, 1926. Original green printed wrappers, spine repaired, perforated library stamp on front wrapper and title. Boxed. 85 [1]pp. 13 plates. 246 x 155 mm. Provenance: Franklin Institute, Philadelphia. First edition. A well-annotated and well-illustrated historical catalogue, focusing primarily on European calculating machines and instruments from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. Among the machines illustrated are two machines built by the Earl of Stanhope, and an original Morland calculator. All three of these machines were formerly owned by Charles Babbage. This remained the most useful and informative exhibition catalogue of early calculating instruments through the 1960s. An updated edition of the catalogue was issued in 1975. Origins of Cyberspace 222.

Original Wraps. Zustand: Near Fine in Wraps. First Edition. First Edition. Original Wraps. "A well-annotated and well-illustrated historical catalogue, focusing primarily on European calculating machines and instruments from the seventeenth to the early twentieth centuries. . . . This remained the most useful and informative exhibition catalogue of early calculating instruments through the 1960s." [OOC 222]. Hint of oxidation at staples, else tight bright and unmarred. Printed green wraps, black ink lettering. 8vo. 85pp plus plates. Illus. (b/w plates).

Hardcover. Zustand: Fine in Near Fine DJ. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. "The first comprehensive exposition of electronic digital computing." [OOC 652] "These lectures were intended for a well-informed scientific audience outside the tiny group of professionals then involved with electronic computing. They represented the first comprehensive exposition of electronic digital computing, and this book was one of the first two treatises on the subject. The other book, Edmund Berkeley's Giant Brains or Machines That Think was written for a more popular audience and achieved greater sales. . . . Chapter 8, entitled 'Projects and prospects,' contains the first generally available comprehensive account of the stored-program machines then in development, including EDVAC, ACE, and EDSAC." [OOC 652]. Minimal shelf/edge wear, else tight, bright, and unmarred; DJ shows minor shelf/edge wear, one small closed tear, else bright and clean. Orange cloth boards, black ink lettering. 8vo. 138pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Hardcover. Octavo, 6 parts. In Very Good minus condition. Bound in dark blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine. Minor rubbing to head and tail of spine, hinges, and corners of boards. Discoloration to bottom edges of spine and boards. Spine slightly cocked. Light foxing to endpapers. Previous owner's sticker on rear pastedown. Age toning throughout textblock. Shelved in Room G. From the collection of Silvio Bedini. Bedini spent twenty five years at the Smithsonian Institution, serving as curator in the Department of Mechanical and Civil Engineering in the new Museum of History and Technology (now the National Museum of American History) before serving as first Assistant Director then Deputy Director of the National Museum of History and Technology. He then served as Keeper of Rare Books at the Dibner Library of the History of Science and Technology, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution Libraries, before becoming a Historian Emeritus. He specialized in early scientific instruments. 1378831. Special Collections.