Calculating Instruments Machines (36 results)

Condition: New. pp. 152.

Condition: New. pp. 152.

Condition: New. pp. 152.

Hard Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. Reprint. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc. A00021762.

Condition: 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:

Condition: Good. Octavo: [8], 138pp. Good copy in original cloth.

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

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

Condition: New. pp. 150.

Trade Paperback. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: No Dust Jacket. Revised Edition. A Fine copy of this large-format photo-illustrated paperback. Book.

Paperback. Condition: Like New. Like New. book.

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Poor. First Edition. Previous owner's name to front pastedown. Wrapper is creased rubbed and thumbed with several areas of significant loss. OX3419.

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

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. States was 'First published 1926; This edition first published 1975". Copyright date is 1975. Notes state that this book, has additions to the Collection since 1926 and a complete list of sectors and gunner's callipers, (not included in the original work) are listed in the appendix. Includes eight page index, and 16 pages of B&W photo "Plates" pictures. Book is 7.5"W by 9.75"L. Blue glossy paper covers are clean with light shelf wear. Covers lightly rubbed and surface scratches. Spine has no creases. Interior pages are clean, with NO writing, creases or tears. The binding is tight. Top page edges are lightly foxed and light soiling on others. Note: We have a closed shop - so our books are not handled by public everyday. We make every effort to fairly describe the condition of the book and identify any flaws (writing, tears, creases, folds), including that of the dust jacket. We use the "Fine or Near Fine" book condition judiciously when grading of the book or dust jacket.

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

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good+. First Edition. First Edition Second Printing (1953) stated in black-stamped brown cloth, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, no dj, binding tight pages bright, slight edge wear to boards, offsetting to endpaper gutters, from collection of UCLA mathematician Nathaniel Grossman with his neat name to front endpaper, a clean tight copy of this pioneering work of early computing by the famed Cambridge mathematician; 8vo; (ix) 138pp indexed & illus.

Soft cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First. 138pp, wear, soil, Weight is 1.5 lb. W/full markings and pocket. Has/may have some pages stuck on the edge of the top margin due to some unintelligent using stencil ink (Paint) to blot out the library edge marking. Frayed edges/cnrs, paint stains on both cvrs. Ex-Library Size: 8vo. Book.

Cloth. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. This is a near fine hardcover first edition, second printing copy in brown cloth binding no DJ. From a Library, marked only with the spine call number. Photos on request.

Cloth. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. With a moisture stain at the top of the text block, otherwise a VG hardcover first edition copy in brown cloth binding in a mylar protected DJ that is chipped and taped, black spine.

Hardcover. Condition: 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. Condition: 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).

FINE IN A GOOD+ D.J. ALONG WITH EDMOND BERKELEY'S "GIANT BRAINS OR MACHINES THAT THINK" GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE SEMINAL BOOKS ON COMPUTERS. LIGHT BROWN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH DARK BROWN SPINE TITLES. BOOK IS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. TATTERED D.J. HAS QUITE A BIT OF EDGE WEAR WITH SOME CHIPPING TO THE EDGES, THE LARGEST A 1 1/4" SQUARE PIECE MISSING AT THE REAR PANEL'S LOWER FORE-EDGE CORNER, SOME MODERATE RUB TO THE FACE OF THE PANELS AND FORE-EDGE RUBBED, AND IS NOT PRICE-CLIPPED. A NICE COPY OVERALL WITH A D.J. ABOUT 95% PRESENT. ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1949 BOTH FIRST AND SECOND PRINTINGS ARE VERY SCARCE. SECOND PRNTG edition. Binding is HARDCOVER.

Hardcover. Condition: 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).

1st Edition. Full volume. FIRST EDITION OF VALTAT'S DESCRIPTION OF HIS PATENTED CALCULATING MACHINE FOUNDED ON THE CONVERSION OF DECIMAL INPUT INTO BINARY INPUT PRIOR TO CALCULATION. Valtat here notes "that binary digits could be represented either mechanically or electrically. He also stated that in an electric circuit the switch "on" would equal 1 and the switch "off" would equal 0" (Jeremy Norman, History of Science). As noted below, some instead credit Louis Couffignal who in 1936 and in this same volume, wrote of employing binary notation in a calculating machine. Couffignal "argues the utility of representing numbers by binary notation in computers and discusses the design of electrical calculators" (Aiken, Proposed Automatic Calculating Machines, 10). A Frenchman, Raymond Valtat (1898-1986) patented his calculator in 1932, but this 1936 paper is his first written account of his invention. In this paper, Valtat finally explains his thought and methodology, strongly advocating for the usage of the binary system in calculating apparatus over that of the decimal system. The scholarship on the invention of the first binary-based calculating machine is confusing. The discovery is sometimes credited to Claude Shannon's master's thesis published in 1938 but written in 1937. Some credit Konrad Zuse who working in Germany, applied for a patent on a binary calculating machine in 1936. Others credit Louis Couffignal who in 1936 also wrote of employing binary notation in a calculating machine. Valtat, however, "may have been the first to propose a binary-based calculating machine" - this because though he did not publish until 1936, he applied for his patent in 1932, thus predating both Zuse and Shannon (Norman; Ptak). Randell 1982a, 519-20. Origins of Cyberspace 397. CONDITION & DETAILS: Complete volume. Ex-libris stamp on the rear of the first page; slight ghosting at the spine where a spine level has been removed. Illustrated throughout, including the Pouillet paper. 4to (11 x 8 inches; 275 x 200mm). Continuously paginated: pp. 1225-2331. Full blue cloth binding, gilt-lettered at the spine; ghosting from the removal of a label at the spine; stamp on the rear of the title page.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. BOOKS ARE EXEMPT FROM IMPORT DUTIES AND TARIFFS; NO EXTRA CHARGES APPLY. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1949 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. Bound in genuine leather with Satin ribbon page markers and Spine with raised gilt bands. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Pages: 160 NO changes have been made to the original text. This is NOT a retyped or an ocr'd reprint. Illustrations, Index, if any, are included in black and white. Each page is checked manually before printing. As this print on demand book is reprinted from a very old book, there could be some missing or flawed pages, but we always try to make the book as complete as possible. Fold-outs, if any, are not part of the book. If the original book was published in multiple volumes then this reprint is of only one volume, not the whole set. Sewing binding for longer life, where the book block is actually sewn (smythe sewn/section sewn) with thread before binding which results in a more durable type of binding. Pages: 160.

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.

Condition: New. Print on Demand pp. 150.

Condition: New. Dieser Artikel ist ein Print on Demand Artikel und wird nach Ihrer Bestellung fuer Sie gedruckt. This 1950 book was based on a short series of lectures given by the author at the University of Illinois in 1948. Aimed at the non-specialist, the chief aim of the text was to provide a general introduction to contemporary developments in the field of calcu.