Calculating Machines Scientific Computing (1 results)
Seller: Jeremy Norman's historyofscience, Novato, CA, U.S.A.Jeremy Norman's historyofscience
Contact seller4-star sellerCalculating machines in scientific computing. Offprint from Nature 139 (May 15, 1937). Unbound. [2]pp., on single sheet. 215 x 134 mm. A brief notice of the growing use of commercial calculating machines in scientific applications. Special mention is made of L. J. Comrie's Scientific Computing Service, newly established in 1937,… where "the scientific worker may get computation jobs done efficiently at reasonable rates." Also noted is "an interesting announcement from Cambridge" relating to "the proposed establishment of a computing laboratory in the mathematical faculty"; this refers to Cambridge University's Mathematical Laboratory, where Maurice Wilkes and his team later developed EDSAC. Origins of Cyberspace 247. .
