Origin Modern Calculating Machines by Turck J a V (60 results)

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. No Jacket. Fine condition hardcover book, no dust jacket. Kessinger Legacy Reprint, no date given. Slightest shelf wear and smudging to text block edges. Slightest toning to top edge of text block. All books are individually inspected and described. Never X-Library unless specifically described as such.

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Condition: Sehr gut. Zustand: Sehr gut | Seiten: 40 | Sprache: Englisch | Produktart: Bücher.

(23 x 15 cm). (2) 196 S. Mit zahlreichen mitpaginierten Tafeln. Grüner geprägter Original-Leinwandband. Erste Ausgabe. - "Concentrates on key-driven adding machines, and on their printing mechanisms, based on the American patent literature. It covers developments by Parmalee, Felt, Barbour, Baldwin, Ludlum and Burroughs. The last chapter concerns direct multiplication mechanisms" (Randall). - Exlibris, sonst sauber und wohlerhalten. - Origins of Cyberspace 393; Randall S. 519.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 272. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1921 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English Pages: 272.

LeatherBound. Condition: NEW. Leatherbound edition. Condition: New. 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. Pages: 212. A perfect gift for your loved ones. Reprinted from 1921 edition. 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. IF YOU WISH TO ORDER PARTICULAR VOLUME OR ALL THE VOLUMES YOU CAN CONTACT US. Resized as per current standards. 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. Language: English Pages: 212.

Hardcover. Condition: Good. Ex-library copy with usual markings. Cover and edges shows shelf wear. Pages are clean and intact.

Hardcover. Condition: Good+. First Edition. First Edition. Hardcover. Reasonably important early overview of various machines. Light shelf/edge wear, wear at the head, ex libris (plates at front endpages and discrete markings), tips through, light tonight to textblock, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Black pebbled cloth boards, embossed lettering and decorative elements. 8vo. 196pp. Illus. (b/w plates).

Chicago, Western Society of Engineers, 1921. Orig. full cloth, frontcover and back stamped in blind. (2),196 pp., 45 illustrations, mostly full-page, incl. photographic reproductions of calculating machines designed by Pascal, Leibniz, Burroughs, Felt, and others. Fine and clean. With a typed letter in 4to, signed by the author, to Mons. Paul Jeannin in Paris, Turck thanks Jeannin for his letter congratulating him on the success of this book, and recalls with pleasure going with Jeannin to see Pascal's calculating machine in Paris. 21 lines dated Wilmette, Ill., l1 11 décembre, 1925. (in French). Also with Felt & Tarrant shipping lebel addressed to Jeannin, incorporatiing a picture of their invention, the Comptometer, the first practical desktop calculator. This was presumably used on the package that held this book. First edition of the first popular history of modern calculating machines.Turck was the inventor of several calculating machines, the earlliest being the Mechanical Accountant, which appeared around 1900. He joined the firm Felt & Tarrant in 1911, and his name appears jointly with that of Felt. After Felt's death, Turck took over design resoponsabilities for the business. The dual-register SuperTotalizer that appeared in 1934 was undoubtly his work. - Hook & Normann, origins of Cyberspace: 393.

LeatherBound. Condition: New. LeatherBound edition. Condition: New. Reprinted from 1921 edition. Leather Binding on Spine and Corners with Golden leaf printing on spine. 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. Pages: 216 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: 216 Language: English.