High-Speed Computing Devices. Supervised by C. B. Tompkins and J. H. Wakelin. Edited by W. W. Stifler, Jr.

Published by New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950

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First edition, first printing, of the first treatise on how to build an electronic digital computer. An important contribution to computing literature in its own right, it also provided some of the most complete bibliographies available on the subject at the time. Charles Brown Tompkins, a pioneering academic in the fields of numerical analysis and computing, wrote the majority of the text, much of which summarises the work of the Engineering Research Associates computer company, of which he was a founder in 1946. Origins of Cyberspace 584; Tomash & Williams E14. Octavo. With diagrams throughout. Original navy cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, front cover ruled in blind. With dust jacket. Minimal shelfwear, cloth bright, contents clean. A near-fine copy in the very good jacket, lightly soiled, chipped at extremities, spine panel faded with two slight indentations and a faint patch of dampstain visible on verso, bookseller's stamp on front flap.

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Title
High-Speed Computing Devices. Supervised by C. B. Tompkins and J. H. Wakelin. Edited by W. W. Stifler, Jr.
Author
TOMPKINS, Charles Brown - ENGINEERING RESEARCH ASSOCIATES, INC.
Publisher
New York: McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc., 1950
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1st Edition

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