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AIKEN, Howard Hathaway and Grace Murray HOPPER. "The automatic sequence controlled calculator" -- I [II, III]. In Electrical Engineering 65 (1946): 384-91, 445-54, 522-28.
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AIKEN, Howard Hathaway and Grace Murray HOPPER. "The automatic sequence controlled calculator" -- I [II, III]. In Electrical Engineering 65 (1946): 384-91, 445-54, 522-28.
Together three parts (nos. 8-9, 10, and 11), 4o. Original off-white printed wrappers; boxed.
FIRST EDITION. A three-part article on the Mark I, based largely on Aiken and Hopper's Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. And the first published description of this machine that reached a wide audience.Although Hopper's name appears second, she was the primary author. The article begins with a brief history of computing instruments. OOC 412.
[With:] HARVARD UNIVERSITY COMPUTATION LABORATORY. Tables of the modified Hankel functions of order one-third and of their derivatives. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. Original dark blue cloth.
FIRST EDITION of the first published tables calculated by the Harvard Mark I, and thus the first published mathematical tables calculated by a programmed automatic computer, finally realizing the goal that Charles Babbage set out in 1822. The machine first operated in January, 1943, and was moved to Harvard in May, 1944. "The control tapes were coded at the end of August 1944 by Lt(jg) Grace Murray Hopper, USNR, after consultation with Professor [Wendell H.] Furry" (p. ix). The brief preface, dated September 1945, was written by Howard Aiken. It explained that calculation of the tables had to be broken up into small increments and run during off hours from other projects. "If it had been possible to run the computation without interruption forty-five days would have been sufficient time to complete the tables. Without the calculator, a period of years would have been necessary to complete the computation" (p. [viii]). OOC 410.
Together three parts (nos. 8-9, 10, and 11), 4
FIRST EDITION. A three-part article on the Mark I, based largely on Aiken and Hopper's Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. And the first published description of this machine that reached a wide audience.Although Hopper's name appears second, she was the primary author. The article begins with a brief history of computing instruments. OOC 412.
[With:] HARVARD UNIVERSITY COMPUTATION LABORATORY. Tables of the modified Hankel functions of order one-third and of their derivatives. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1945. Original dark blue cloth.
FIRST EDITION of the first published tables calculated by the Harvard Mark I, and thus the first published mathematical tables calculated by a programmed automatic computer, finally realizing the goal that Charles Babbage set out in 1822. The machine first operated in January, 1943, and was moved to Harvard in May, 1944. "The control tapes were coded at the end of August 1944 by Lt(jg) Grace Murray Hopper, USNR, after consultation with Professor [Wendell H.] Furry" (p. ix). The brief preface, dated September 1945, was written by Howard Aiken. It explained that calculation of the tables had to be broken up into small increments and run during off hours from other projects. "If it had been possible to run the computation without interruption forty-five days would have been sufficient time to complete the tables. Without the calculator, a period of years would have been necessary to complete the computation" (p. [viii]). OOC 410.
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