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Paperback. Condition: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

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Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. First edition. 8vo (267 x 200mm), pp. [xvi], 561, [3], with 17 numbered plates (including frontispiece), text illustrations (slight toning). Publisher's dark blue cloth. A fine copy. First edition. The electromechanical Harvard Mark I was the first programmable calculating machine to produce mathematical tables, thus realizing the dream of Charles Babbage originally set out in print in 1822. Also known as the IBM Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator, the Mark I was the brainchild of Howard Aiken, who first conceived of building a powerful, large-scale calculating machine in 1935 while pursuing graduate studies in physics at Harvard University. In 1937, after Aiken had become a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard's Graduate School of Engineering, he proposed his idea to a number of calculating-machine manufacturers, receiving several rejections before finally convincing IBM to undertake the project. The manual represents the work of a great many people whose efforts have been closely integrated as is necessary in the operation of large-scale calculating machines." Provenance: Brooks J. Lockhart (signature is on the front free endpaper). Lockhart was the primary author of the Manual's sixth chapter concerning the solution of simple problems using the Mark I. "American computing pioneer Howard H. Aiken (1900-1973) first conceived of building a powerful, large-scale calculating machine in 1935 while pursuing graduate studies in physics at Harvard University. In 1937, after Aiken had become a professor of applied mathematics at Harvard's Graduate School of Engineering, he proposed his idea to a number of calculating-machine manufacturers, drafting a proposal for an automatic calculating machine, and receiving several rejections before finally convincing IBM to undertake the project. The project, known initially as Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), and later called the Harvard Mark I, was partly funded by money from the United States Navy; the remainder came from IBM, whose president, Thomas J. Watson, viewed the undertaking as good publicity and as a showcase for IBM''s talents. By January 1943 the machine was operational at IBM Endicott Labs under wartime security. The completed electromechanical calculating machine weighed five tons. "Construction of the Mark I was completed in early 1943, and a year later the machine was dismantled and shipped to Harvard, where it became operational in May 1944. The electromechanical machine solved addition problems in less than a second, multiplication in six seconds, and division in 12 seconds. Grace Hopper wrote some of its first programs, which ran on punched tape. "In 1946 Aiken and Grace Hopper published A Manual of Operation for the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator. The instruction sequences scattered throughout this volume on the Harvard Mark I were among the earliest published examples of digital computer programs. Aiken saw himself as Babbage's intellectual successor, and in an excellent historical introduction to this technical manual he and Hopper placed the Harvard Mark I in its historical context. The computer historian Paul Ceruzzi implies as much in the following description: '[The Harvard Mark I] manual was a milepost that marked the state of the art of machine computation at one of its critical places: where, for the first time, machines could automatically evaluate arbitrary sequences of arithmetic operations. "The operating manual for the Mark I calculator published as Volume 1 of the Annals of the Computation Laboratory of Harvard University was written largely by Hopper, who was the chief author of chapters 1-3 and the eight appendices following chapter 6. Chapters 4 and 5 were written by Aiken and Robert Campbell, and chapter 6, containing directions for solving sample problems on the machine, was primarily the work of Brooks J. Lockhart" (historyofinformation). Bottom corner slightly bumped. In fine condition in custom clamshell box. 8½" - 11½". book.…

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine condition. First Edition. New York: The Institute of Radio Engineers, 1953. This volume of Proceedings of the IRE includes the "Computer Issue" [Vol. 41, No.10, October 1953, pp. 1,217 - 1,568]. The "Computer Issue" contains 41 papers on the subject of electronic computers, the most significant of which are described in Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE. [See Hook and Norman entries Nos. 508, 513, 626, 641, 664, 672, 871, 885-886]. Among the authors in this "Computer Issue" are Werner Buchholz, Arthur W. Burks & Jesse B. Wright; Clarence E. Frizzell, Sidney Greenwald, Grace Murray Hopper, Thorenson Huskey, Harold D. Ross, Claude E. Shannon & Edward F. Moore. The "Computer Issue" is one of 6 consecutive monthly issues bound together. They consist of Volume 41, July - December (#7 - 12) 1953, pages 833 - 1,818. HARDCOVER. NOT a library discard. Near Fine condition. NO owner's name or bookplate. Pages are clean and unmarked - probably never read. Institute of Radio Engineers. Original front wraps are bound in. The binding is sturdy blue buckram, stamped in bright gold on the spine. Oversize Hardcover. 8.75" wide by 11" tall by 1.75" thick. This large heavy book will require extra postage for Priority and International shipments, but only the standard charge for media mail. SEE Hook and Norman's ORIGINS OF CYBERSPACE 675, 508, 513, 626, 641, 664, 672, 871, 885-886. First Edition. Oversize Hardcover. Near Fine condition. Illus. by NOT a library discard. pp. 833 - 1,818 [985 total pages]. Great Packaging, Fast Shipping. NOT a library discard (illustrator).…

First edition, rare in the dust jacket, of the first computer programming textbook: the operating manual for the electromechanical Harvard Mark I. It was largely written by Grace Hopper, "one of the most famous of the postwar computer pioneers" (OOC). This copy was owned by the inventor and environmentalist Theodore Miller Edison, the son of Thomas Edison. Designed by Howard Aiken (1900-1973) and operational from May 1944, the Harvard Mark I was almost immediately commandeered for war work by the US Navy. Hopper (1906-1992) - who had joined Aiken's team that year and quickly become its lead programmer - was tasked with writing an instruction manual for it, "a task so monumental that she referred to her project as a computer 'bible'. It was a detailed treatment of Mark I's physical components, operation, and maintenance. Most importantly, the manual described with elaborate care how to program Mark I, thus becoming the first ever computer programming textbook" (Harvard). It was published as the first volume of the Annals of the Computation Laboratory. Hopper was involved in a number of other influential technological developments. She was central to the development of UNIVAC and pioneered compiler technology. She also co-developed the commercial language COBOL. An addressed card stating that this copy was from the library of Theodore Miller Edison (1898-1992) is loosely inserted; his purchase notes are also pencilled on the front free endpaper. As a child, Edison's interest in science led him to be known in his family as "the little laboratory assistant", and he went on to serve as the Technical Director of Research and Engineering for his father's company. He also founded his own firm, Calibron Industries, Inc., which became famous for the Calibron 12 puzzle. Edison accumulated over 80 patents in his career, including for a device that eliminated vibration in machinery and a stereoscopic mapping instrument. Origins of Cyberspace 411. "Harvard IBM Mark I", Collection of Historical Scientific Instruments, Harvard University, accessible online. Quarto. With 17 black-and-white photographic plates, diagrams and tables within text. Original dark blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt. With dust jacket. Cloth and contents clean, spine ends gently rubbed, bumps to extremities; jacket unclipped, spine faded, nicks to top edge, covers lightly soiled: a very good copy in like jacket.…