MAUREL, Timoleon-Louis and Jean JAYET, "Rapport sur une machine arithmetique" in: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences".

MAUREL, Jayet, Wurtz, Pasteur and many other. ++Early Calculating Instrument++

Published by Paris, Bachelier, 1849

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MAUREL, Timoleon-Louis and Jean JAYET, "Rapport sur une machine arithmetique" in: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences", Paris, Bachelier, 1849, offered in the full volume 28, 837pp with the Maurel/Jayet paper pp 209-217. Bound in a modern standard blue library cloth; old German university rubber stamp on rear title page. Very crisp and bright. The entire index is reproduced via Xerox and bound in at the end. [++] The young French student Timoléon-Louis Maurel (1819-1879) brought a patent in 1842 for his calculating machine--"the first calculating machine for multiplication and division. "Several years later (in 1846) Maurel patented (this time together with his fellow-student and friend Jean Jayet (1820-1904)--an improved version of the machine. Interestingly, Maurel and Jayet later claimed that they were unaware of the existence of Pascal s machine when they embarked on the design of their own.Moreover, they didn t mention the machine of Thomas  [arithmometer], and later there was an industrial property dispute between Thomas and Maurel (this dispute was not in the legal field since the first patent Thomas has long since expired), although they obviously borrowed the stepped drum mechanism from Arithmometer of Thomas. [As a matter of fact the Maurel and Jayet machine is referred to as the "Maurel-Jayet Arithmometer" in the IBM collection.) The prototype of the device was presented at the Exposition Nationale de 1849 in Paris and caused a sensation, being awarded the gold medal from the President of the Republic, Prince Louis-Napoleon Bonaparte. An article in the "l Illustration" magazine reports that the 10-digits machine costs 2000 F and recommends the government to order twenty examples." --Computer-Timeline website. [Also] WURTZ, Adolphe. "Sur une série d'alcalis organiques homologues avec l'ammoniaque." pp 223-226, in which Wurtz announces the discovery of the amines. See: Leicester & Klickstein "A Source Book in Chemistry", pp. 362-63; Claire Parkinson "Breakthroughs" for 1849. [Also with} PASTEUR, Louis. "Recherches sur les relatis qui peuvent exister entre la forme cristalline, la composition chimique et le sensrotatoire (deuxieme memoire)", pp 477-478. [Continued from the paper found in CR vol 27 #15.] And many others. FNCH 009.

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• Title: MAUREL, Timoleon-Louis and Jean JAYET, "Rapport sur une machine arithmetique" in: "Comptes Rendus Hebdomadaires des Séances de L'Academie des Sciences".
• Publisher: Paris, Bachelier
• Publication Date: 1849
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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