Calculating Instruments and Machines

University of Illinois Press, 1949 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… Read more about this item

Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1949. First Edition. Hardcover. Fine in Near Fine DJ. 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,… Read more about this item

URBANA, ILLINOIS: UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS PRESS. FINE IN A GOOD+ D.J.. PUB 1953. SECOND PRNTG. HARDCOVER. ISBN: ALONG WITH EDMOND BERKELEY'S "GIANT BRAINS OR MACHINES THAT THINK". ISBN: GENERALLY CONSIDERED THE SEMINAL BOOKS ON COMPUTERS.. LIGHT BROWN CLOTH COVERED BOARDS WITH DARK BROWN SPINE TITLES. BOOKIS FINE WITHOUT ANY MARKS TO THE BINDING OR THE TEXT. TATTERED… Read more about this item

Paperback / softback. New. 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 calculating instruments and machines.

Very Good.

Cambridge University Press, 2012. Paperback. New. reissue edition. 138 pages. 9.50x6.75x0.50 inches.